5,000 photos from the fall of the Berlin Wall

Marcel Fürstenau | DW | 18th March 2021

Besides being politically momentous, the fall of the Berlin Wall was aesthetically significant. Conrad, an East German resident, photographed the Wall prior to its fall. It was, he states, “architecture at its most vicious”. He then documented its lengthy physical removal. “Photographing buildings or military installations that may have outlived their purpose is a form of reflection on how we deal with the past.”