Architectural lensman Dieter Leistner was born the same yr East Germany get construction on the Berlin Wall . He was 37 when it fall . Maybe that ’s why his interest in North and South Korea feels so personal — he spent forty eld in another shared out country .
Leistner ’s new book , Korea – Korea , is a collection of images that were shot in 2006 , in Pyongyang , and 2012 , in Seoul . Each bed cover compare two different public spaces in each metropolis , including bus halt , subway automobile , and public squares . In a foreword to the book , curator Klaus Klemp explains his linear perspective as a German :
Up until 1989 , Koreans and Germans portion out the same fate , although for quite different reasons . While the section of Germany was the result of a terrible war unleashed by Germany across the whole of Europe , the creation of a capitalist South and a communist North Korea was the result of Nipponese occupation and a proxy war that the former World War II ally and later Cold War antagonists carried out on Korean grease . German division into West and East and the Korean section into South and North are thus not alone comparable . But this constellation of the division of a nation , with people cut off from each other , families torn apart , a total dimout on all contact , and the woe of many victims who paid with their life or years in labor camps for any seek to flee is particularly painful for the German observers who can remember their own similar experience .
The side - by - side effigy comparison could ’ve easy become gimmicky ( or even exploitive ) . But Leistner manages to quash that booby trap — principally because of his gift as a lensman , but also because he focuses on the casual experiences that the two cultures still share . [ GestaltenviaIt ’s Nice That ]
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