About the Book
The East Side Gallery is a 1.3 km long painted stretch of the former Berlin Wall along the Mühlenstrasse in former East Berlin. It is the longest contiguous segment of Wall remaining and the largest open-air gallery in the world with over 100 original mural paintings. Wall murals had previously been a highlight for visitors and a Berlin attraction for years but were only to be found on the western side of the Wall. After the wall fell in 1989, hundreds of artists from all over the world came to Berlin to transform the grim and gray wall into a piece of art.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 40 - Publish Date: Sep 26, 2011
- Language English
- Keywords fineart, history, comunism, berlin wall, berlin
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About the Creator
Andrei Iliescu
Romania
I was born in 1956, in Bucharest, Romania. Although my education was of a different kind, my passion for photography was formed in childhood. In December 1989 I wandered the streets with my camera and took advantage of the chance I've been waiting for all my life. For the following eight years I was photographer for Sygma, AFP, EPA, and AP. Then I made a choice which at that time seemed to lead me a step further: working on my own in commercial photography. More than ten years I spent working in my studio. It was a huge challenge, but photojournalism kept whispering in my ear and I remembered an old passion repressed over those years: travels. Now I’m attracted by the documentary field working mainly on personal long-term projects.