Contact Sheet Print: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany, 1989 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) a busy street from early

a busy street from early morning to late at night

Objects are animated by a lifeforce that is nothing other than the death of beings

this image appears to have been a perfect example of being in the right place at just the right moment

” wrote Bruno Barbey of his time shooting the Paris riots

capturing how this man and his vision of America touched us with steadfast idealism and humanity

Contact Sheet Print: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany, 1989 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) a busy street from earlyHaving photographed the Berlin Wall being constructed as a 19 year old, Raymond Depardon found himself back in the city on assignment for the newspaper Libration covering the Walls fall, in late 1989. He made this series of images near the Brandenburg Gate, and while it featured on the front pages of the Financial Times, and Le Monde at the time it has, as he explains below, gained greater value over time. Depardon wrote of the series as you can see