Hohenzollerndam

Ulrich Görlich is known for originating innovative experimental photo processes. Here, he reproduced a source photograph of a destroyed building on Hohenzollerndamm, a main street in the West Berlin neighborhood of Wilmersdorf. Görlich transferred the image to aluminum, giving the luminous ruins an eerie ghostlike quality—perhaps referring to the ability of photographs to preserve people and places that have vanished. However, dark drips of the medium make the photograph appear to dissolve like the decomposing building it depicts.