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Public and Private: East Germany in Photographs by Ulrich Wüst


September 5 - 3, 2016
10:00am - 6:00pm
Kurtz Gallery for Photography, MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue (Building N51)
September 5 - 3, 2016
10:00am - 6:00pm
Kurtz Gallery for Photography, MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue (Building N51)

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of German reunification, the MIT Museum presents an exhibition of photographs by Ulrich Wüst, a rarely-seen master of photography during the Cold War era. Public and Private: East Germany in Photographs by Ulrich Wüst, on view in the Kurtz Gallery for Photography at the MIT Museum from September 5, 2015 to January 3, 2016, is revealing of public planning under Socialist rule and of the private life of East German citizens. Wüst's evocative views of the former totalitarian state and the transformations of the capital, Berlin, before and after reunification are seen in 84 black and white prints and over 200 album-mounted prints. This is Wüst's first solo exhibition in the United States. It is curated by Gary Van Zante of the MIT Museum.

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