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<blockquote><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>JASON
LANGER & THOMAS SCHESTAG</b></font><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><i>in conversation, to
celebrate the publication of<br>
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Langer’s recent book of photographs</i></font>
<blockquote><i><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>BERLIN</b></font></i><br>
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(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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium;
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"Times New Roman", serif;"> 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. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:
"Times New Roman", serif;"> Photographing from a
feeling of outsized fear about Germany and German people, Langer
made images of some of the darkest </span><span
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well as brightest </span>places in the city. The images are a
moody mixture of the tragic, joyous, and erotic. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium;
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"Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Jason Langer </b>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 – <i>Secret City</i> and <i>Possession</i> (both
from Nazraeli), <i>Twenty Years </i>(Radius), and <i>Berlin</i>
(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.<br>
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<b>Thomas Schestag</b>, 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 <i>Namenlose</i>
(Matthes & Seitz), and translations of Rosmarie Waldrop (<i>Hölderlin-Hybride</i>,
from Urs Engeler) and Francis Ponge (<i>Le soleil / die sönne</i>,
from Matthes & Seitz).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium;
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"Times New Roman", serif;">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.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times
New Roman", serif;"> — Mark Alice Durant, Saint Lucy Books<br>
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