Capturing dissent: forensic photography of graffiti in the late GDR. Paper in ‘Territory, Politics, Governance’

Black-and-white photograph of a façade bearing a spray-painted anarchist symbol between two windows.

Through a document analysis of archival materials, I explore visual landscapes of graffiti that were produced by the German Democratic Republic’s Ministry for State Security photographers in Leipzig between 1980 and 1989 in this recent…

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