I might have found the perfect camera: The Lubitel 166, a Russian single-lens reflex camera. As an analog it gives warm colours and blurs the frame edges, but elsewhere gives detail -- retro but not too much. Check out Lubitel on flickr.
I started a systematic literature research of german literature on the topic and created an endnote-file. Do you use this software? I need you to send me some questions, preferably questions concerning history, politics and sociology, that might be important for our project. I will be in my university library tomorrow and could get a lot of literature there.
There's a book about an exhibition in the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in 1979: "Paris, Berlin 1900-1933, conformances and differences"; there's a chapter about industrial design and everyday objects. It might be helpful to compare the then existing perceptions of conformances and differences to our own perception. It's in german: I will check it out.
Another book that caught my attention is about the restructuring of East-Berlin in the 1990s. It might contain some arguments about the "cultural annexation" of East-Berlin by the West-German alternative and artistic culture: "Die Restrukturierung des Raumes" (Restructuring Space). Since we need to know more about the emergence of the particular Berlin coffeehouse culture...
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Gabriel, the Lubitel looks fantastic. We should definitely give it a try.
ReplyDeleteAs for questions, I think we've already articulated quite a few on here, but these--which are quite basic--come to mind:
1) did Bauhaus 'products' ever trickle down to the general population as per the designers intention?
2) what kind of industrial products were generated in East Berlin that may have leaked over to the West after unification? (Soviet designs, for example) Vice versa?
3) Cafes on Potsdamer Platz? Any archival evidence of them, their organization, influence from Paris?