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Laurenz Berges (born Cloppenburg, 1966) is a German photographer. He is associated with the Düsseldorf School of Photography.[1][2]
Laurenz Berges | |
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Born | 1966 |
Known for | photography |
Movement | Düsseldorf School of Photography |
Website | Official website |
Berges studied communication design at the University of Essen from 1986 to 1993, where he graduated with a diploma. In 1988 and 1989, Berges worked as a photo assistant for the photographer Evelyn Hofer in New York. He studied photography at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, since 1992. He graduated as a Master Student under Bernd Becher, in 1996. Berges lives and works in Düsseldorf.[3][4] Berges' work is held in several important museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, in New York[5] and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[6]
Berges' photographic work focuses primarily on transience. Between 1991 and 1995, Berges photographed the interiors of East German barracks that had been abandoned by the Red Army after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In his book Etzweile, Berges focus on Etzweiler, the district of Elsdorf that had to make way for open-pit lignite mining.[7] He has photographed for years the wastelands in the de-industrialized city of Duisburg. Berges finds his subjects in the urban gray areas. He is particularly interested by the details from abandoned apartments, vacated houses, and overgrown gardens, that he makes the subject of a poetic, yet strictly documentary pictorial composition. In view of these photographs from the no-man's land between use and decay, recent past and foreseeable future, one could almost speak of the photographic equivalent of Arte Povera.[8]
Berges' work is held, among others, in the following public collections:
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