Tolle Einblicke in das Projekt von damals. Vielen Dank für die Mühe

@tomscameras

6 ай бұрын

Vielen Dank! Ich finde das Projekt auch nach wie vor absolut faszinierend!

I was born in 1966 so I remember this wall well, even if I am not German. Very interesting! Thank you!

@tomscameras

6 ай бұрын

You're very welcome and we both are happy you liked this video!

Fascinating to see how such a physical structure symbolised the psychological split imposed on a people. Capturing it’s aging and cultural incorporation reveals how all things are mutable over time.

@tomscameras

6 ай бұрын

Yes, it's true. But also that split in some ways still is deep within our country, sadly.

Ich finde als Kölner Fotograf, geb. 1965, die Geschichte dieses Projekts so toll und faszinierend, das ich es mir gerade bestellt habe. Als Kölner Fotograf und Kunstliebhaber ein absolutes Must Have, Grüße Thomas, Barbarossaplatz

@tomscameras

4 ай бұрын

Hallo Thomas! Das freut mich / uns wirklich sehr zu hören!

@Tom-yd5lg

3 ай бұрын

@@tomscameras Ich freue mich da auch echt tierisch drauf, es kommt am nächsten Donnerstag😁

Fascinating story, fascinating project! I reached adulthood in 1983 in western Germany, it was an exciting period - with the cold war still full-on, the punk movement coming up when it already was ending in USA and UK, and large parts of the western hemisphere still feeling obliged to provide some halfway decent social security while the competition of the socialist block was still there. What many don't know, people not just tried to flee from the east to the west; over time, a six figure number of people willingly migrated from western to eastern Germany. Howsoever - those photographs really are a unique documentation of a very special human artifact from a very special era!

@tomscameras

6 ай бұрын

Yes, it’s a special artifact from weird times … but also from the midst of the longest time of (relative) piece that we ever enjoyed in Europe. I didn’t know that so many people were traveling from the West to the East. Have to check that out, thanks for telling us. And I am really hoping that this great photo project gets some more exposure in the future as well. It was back in 1984 but it is such a relevant document of the times still today!

Stationed in Ashaffenburg 81-83, never visited the wall. Things were weird then, (Falklands,etc.) but the rock concerts were great.

@tomscameras

6 ай бұрын

Well, what can I say: I was born and living in Germany since 1975 and I never ever saw the wall ...! It was great to experience that the Cold War ended when I was young. Which makes today's global situation look dark again ... but that is another story. Weird that the Berlin Wall was there in the midst of maybe the longest peace time we had in Europe.

Wow Tom! What an interesting and beautiful video! Wonderful story and book.

@tomscameras

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Kim! Really exciting to get the opportunity to show this great project to the world! :)

Hi Tom hope your well I enjoyed the video very interesting Philipp did a good job recording the history of the wall it was different for him because he was born and grew up with it always there it is good that he did the project for later generations to get an impression of what it was like I remember it being pulled down I was 24 years old at the time and seen it only on the news here in England and thinking it was a great thing to see it fall.......

@tomscameras

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for your comment! Yes I think one story we all can learn from this is that it's often worth it to document something even if it's disliked by many, like the wall. Times change and then it's gone, and all you're left with is all those photos! Cheers to England!

You are making a new video, right? I enjoy watching your video's and I figured it was about time now 😉

@tomscameras

5 ай бұрын

Yes! Actually there are more than one new video(s) in the making right now :)

Bello molto interessante...bravo

@tomscameras

6 ай бұрын

Grazie mille!

Really great to see and hear about such a large and in hindsight important project! 👍 Weird question maybe, but I'm just curious; what lens is used for the close-up of Mr. Bösel?

@tomscameras

6 ай бұрын

Many thanks for your feedback! The close-up camera was a Canon R with the simple EF 50/1.8 lens on it. (Set to 4k video, the old EOS R defaults to APS-C crop.)

Hallo Thomas, hat Philipp immer noch seine alte SL66 Kamera und die originalen SW Negative?

@tomscameras

6 ай бұрын

Hallo! Zur Rolleiflex SL 66 von Philipp hab ich ein Video gemacht - siehe hier: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKeuo6Rtf6SZlcY.html Negative, siehe auch das Video: Diese befinden sich mittlerweile beim Bundesarchiv in Koblenz!