New photobook: ALEX by Christian Reister
Christian Reister has released his photobook ALEX on the opening of the Mittelpunkt der Welt exhibition in Berlin. The exhibition is organized by neunplus and is part of the 4th European Month of Photography.
Links: photobook ALEX http://www.reister-images.de/alex/alex-the-book/
neunplus http://www.neunplus.com/news/4th-european-month-of-photography-in-berlin
4th European Month of Photography: www.mdf-berlin.de
ALEX is the short term for Alexanderplatz, a large public square in the central Mitte district of Berlin. At Alexanderplatz bizarre humor, pure joy and deep sadness are often only a few concrete slabs apart. Between 2008 and 2010 Christian Reister photographed daily life at Berlin’s biggest square, where some 300,000 people pass by daily. The result is a series of photographs, which in particular show people in a wide-angle close-up perspective. They rush to the subway, come out of the shopping mall with over-sized shopping bags, drink beer, feed pigeons, or just simply hang out. They kiss, they laugh, they smoke, they wear bulky wool hats and navel-free T-shirts, or they look longingly into the distance. Christian Reister brings into focus what remains unnoticed and yet is essential. The photographs, in 16:9 format, dominate through their cool, “steel” color, much like film stills, which could be set in motion at any moment.
The book contains 74 pages and 47 of Reister’s ALEX photographs. It is available on Christian Reister’s website.
Link: Christian Reister’s website
http://www.reister-images.de/alex/alex-the-book/
