2024-02-06 15:43:32
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Photographer Helga Paris dies at the age of 85
Status: 06.02.2024 | Reading time: 2 minutes
Photographer Helga Paris in her self-portrait “Self in the Mirror” in Berlin 1971
Source: dpa/Helga Paris
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Helga Paris became known for her photographs of people in their everyday life in the GDR. The photographer has now died in Berlin at the age of 85. She leaves her photographs to the Academy of Arts – 230,000 negatives and around 6,300 films.
The photographer Helga Paris is dead. She died on Monday in her Berlin apartment at the age of 85, her daughter told the dpa news agency on Tuesday. With her photographs she vividly captured people in their everyday lives.
Born in Goleniów in West Pomerania in 1938, Paris grew up in Zossen in the GDR. She studied fashion design and initially worked as a graphic designer before switching to photography in the 1960s.
She found her motifs in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, where she moved in 1966 with her then husband, the painter Ronald Paris, and where her two children grew up. The works created in Berlin are strongly influenced by Paris’ surroundings. At that time, the Prenzlauer Berg district was still characterized by working-class families. Photographs of “Women in the VEB Treffmodelle clothing factory” from 1984 testify to this.
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She also took photographs at Hackescher Markt, in Halle, Georgia and Poland and at Leipzig Central Station. For her photos she found people in Berlin, Georgia or Transylvania; she photographed young men in the Roman train station district, women in Poland and passers-by on Alexanderplatz.
One of her well-known series is “Berlin Pubs” from 1975. For “Houses and Faces” from Halle in 1983-85, she tried, in her own words, to photograph everything “like a foreign city in a foreign country.” Works from 1981/82 provide an insight into “Leipzig Central Station”. The series “Memories of Z.” was created in Zossen near Berlin
Paris, since 1996 Member of the Berlin Academy of Artsleft the institution its archive with almost 230,000 negatives and around 6,300 films.
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