Photographers from the West saw the GDR as an adventure playground

A photographic canon exists over the GDR for a long time. A show in Cottbus shows another picture: What did hardly known artists and photographers notice today when visiting East Germany in the 1970s and 80s? Nothing could be more wrong than to regard East German photography as a closed collection area, even if the country ceased to exist with the deadline of 3 October 1990. Since then, however, the picture-convolut has only really unfolded its …