Andreas Rost - 3. Oktober 90 painted photographs

Andreas Rost - 3. Oktober 90 painted photographsWasmuth Verlag 2020 Through the lens of his camera, photographer Andreas Rost looks at the watch on a man's arm: it is five past twelve. On the night of October 3, 1990, when the masses gathered at the Brandenburg Gate to celebrate this accession, he took photos like hundreds of other people there. With a powerful flash and, as they say in Berlin, "go for it" Rost saw himself early on as a big city photographer, who visits the city where it comes into

Uruguay and Brazil to the Iguazu Falls

has turned out to be fertile ground for creative

violence or loss’

ISBN: 978-83-952840-0-7

Self published 2013

each of which replicates an urban landscape

9 tipped-in cards

a collection of photographs made in the North East of England during the 1970s and early 1980s

and landscape becomes a ‘material for producing many selves

“offer a winding journey through a mangled urban landscape that looks something like wilderness

created in me a powerful emotional short-circuit that made me associate the virgin to the girls

Thiery shows how improvisation counters the generic and mundane in the public sphere