[Local events] Sun 6/11: Book launch & conversation for Jason Langer's BERLIN

[David Abel]

/Passages Bookshop presents/

    *JASON LANGER & THOMAS SCHESTAG*

/in conversation, to celebrate the publication of
//Jason Langer’s recent book of photographs/

    /*BERLIN*/

*Sunday, June 11
6:30 pm*

Doors open at 6:00 pm; no late entry
Free admission

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/*Berlin */ (Kerber Verlag) is a five-year photographic project on the 
city of Berlin from the eyes of a Jewish photographer who grew up in 
Israel and who was deeply affected by his yearly visits to the kibbut’s 
Holocaust memorial every Yom Hashoah.

      The images, shot on black-and-white film, constitute a walk 
through the city, with an eye towards places where Jews hid or were 
deported during the Second World War.

      Photographing from a feeling of outsized fear about Germany and 
German people, Langer made images of some of the darkest as well as 
brightest places in the city. The images are a moody mixture of the 
tragic, joyous, and erotic.


*Jason Langer *is a photographer primarily known for his noirish visions 
of figures in urban settings. He has exhibited his work with Benrubi 
Gallery (NYC), Galerie Esther Wordehoff (Paris), Kopeikin Gallery (Los 
Angeles), Gilman Contemporary (Idaho), and SFO Museum (San Francisco), 
among other venues, and has published four books – /Secret City/ and 
/Possession/ (both from Nazraeli), /Twenty Years /(Radius), and /Berlin/ 
(Kerber). Langer’s photographs are held in permanent collections, 
including the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Yale University Art 
Gallery, Zimmerli Art Museum, and International Photography Hall of Fame 
and Museum, and are represented by CLAMP (NYC), Galerie Esther 
Woerdehoff (Paris), and Gilman Contemporary (Sun Valley, ID). Langer 
lives in Portland.


*Thomas Schestag*, widely published writer and translator, teaches 
literature in the Department of German Studies at Brown University. His 
special interests include theories of names and naming, and the 
intersection of philosophy, philology, poetics, and politics. Recent 
publications include /Namenlose/ (Matthes & Seitz), and translations of 
Rosmarie Waldrop (/Hölderlin-Hybride/, from Urs Engeler) and Francis 
Ponge (/Le soleil / die sönne/, from Matthes & Seitz).



/Langer is a confident photographer whose epic images recall the spirit 
of modernist auteurs like Brassai, Steichen, Kertesz, and 
Renger-Patzsch. 'Berlin' is his most personal book in that it traces the 
artist's Jewish roots, his time on an Israeli kibbutz, and what it means 
for a contemporary American photographer to walk the streets where some 
of the greatest horrors of the 20th c. were planned and executed. 
Langer's collection of muscular images of architecture and alleyways 
where the ghosts of history can be felt are punctuated by moments of 
quiet sensuality./  — Mark Alice Durant, Saint Lucy Books


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