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One of Swoon’s wheat-pasted drawings in Berlin, 2006
Photo by Jusan on Flickr

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BERLIN RISING
by Anna Altman

I visited places from which symbols of GDR history have been effaced. I asked passers-by and residents to describe the objects that once filled these empty spaces. I photographed their absence and replaced the missing monuments with their memories.

-- Sophie Calle, The Detachment, 1996

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