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Abandoned Apartment, Dresden-Cotta

2005
(American, b. 1957)
America, 21st century
inkjet print
Image: 50.8 x 62.1 cm (20 x 24 7/16 in.); Paper: 61.1 x 74.4 cm (24 1/16 x 29 5/16 in.); Matted: 81.3 x 96.5 cm (32 x 38 in.)
The Charlotte Ekker and Charlotte Van der Veer Memorial Fund 2010.219
© 2005, Fredrik Marsh
Impression: 1
Location: not on view
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As part of an ongoing series, Columbus-based photographer Marsh began to photograph vacant, unassuming apartment building interiors in Dresden, Germany, in 2005. In his exploration of the city, he discovered that the inhabitants, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, just walked away from their apartments and former lives. While decay, vandalism, and graffiti now occupy this room, its most prominent feature, located where a window might be, is a mural-sized color poster depicting an idyllic landscape bathed in fall colors, attesting to a former tenant’s desire to be exposed to nature’s beauty.
Abandoned Apartment, Dresden-Cotta

Abandoned Apartment, Dresden-Cotta

2005

Fredrik Marsh

(American, b. 1957)
America, 21st century

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