Arwed Messmer: Berlin, Fruchtstraße on March 27, 1952 Published by Spector Books. Edited with text by Annett Gröschner, Fritz Tiedemann. Text by Arwed Messmer, Florian Ebner, Uwe W. Tiedemann. A photographic portrait of a single boulevard in Berlin, taken before the buildings’ demolition In 1952, East Berlin’s municipal authorities commissioned Fritz Tiedemann to photograph a section of Fruchtstraße, where the buildings were set for demolition in the following decades. In this volume, German photographer Arwed Messmer (born 1964) assembles 32 archival images into a panoramic portrait of a bygone place.
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