Helga Paris - Leipzig Hauptbahnhof 1981/82 Japanese Photography

Helga Paris - Leipzig Hauptbahnhof 1981/82 Japanese PhotographySpector Books 2020 Time seems to stand still in Helga Pariss eighty black and white photographs. Only rarely do you see anyone hurrying for a train. There are no clocks. Everyone is waiting: the toilet attendant for the end of her shift, the woman selling lottery tickets for the next person seeking to make their fortune, the pensioner for her beer. Helga Pariss series is a masterful study of a particular milieu with unmistakable charactersthe marginal

The seed of the idea for the work was planted ten years ago when Rozovsky took a small motorboat around the park’s southern lake

which photo critic Gerry Badger saw as “transforming the interpretation of historical facts into a work of art in a creative act

was published earlier this year on the occasion of his solo exhibition of the same title at Musée de la Photographie Charles Nègre in Nice

an interpretation but one that can never be fully resolved

By the Mid-70s

or stopping to smoke on the city streets

After the original creation is completed each time punctually for the Sabbath

These monochromatic images

how we were

crafting images that are equally anthropological and expressive

303 mm x 240 m

removed the gown embroidered with the words ‘Charlie’s Bar’