With
a German/English text by Dunja Christochowitz. Edition J. J. Heckenhauer,
Berlin/Tuebingen 2005. 192 nn. p. with b/w and colour illustrations
by Esther Levine. Hardcover. Bounded.
EUR 18,-
ISBN 3-9809619-4-X
"The
work of New York based German photographer Esther Levine is attracting
attention in this corpus of urban ideas and symbols. A code is a system
of symbols. Symbols stand for other symbols which without communication
remain phenomena unrecorded. Esther Levine creates transient codes for
Berlin's continuity in change - her work is about intensities with a
foucaultish contempt for quantities and qualities. Her photography stands
in the tradition of Garry Winogrand's claim: "I photograph to see
what the world looks like in photographs."
(Dunja Christochowitz)
