Gemma at Humboldt University, East Berlin 1990

Humboldt University, Unter den Linden, East Berlin, July 1990. The building had originally been constructed in the eighteenth century as a palace for Prince Heinrich of Prussia before becoming the home of Berlin's university in the nineteenth century. I wasn't trying to make an architectural record; Gemma provided the human scale, the architecture provided the backdrop, and the enormous clock provided the slightly surreal prop.

This photograph is part of my Berlin 1990 story, "July 1990, The Last Summer of East Berlin" → Read the full story