 Gert Berliner American (b. 1924) born Berlin, Germany Gert Berliner was born in Germany, lived in Sweden from 1939, and moved to the United States in 1947. Aside from the the years 1971-76 when he lived in Italy, he has lived in the United States, in New York and New Mexico, since that time. Berliner worked as a photojournalist in the 1960s, for Harpers Bazaar, Saturday Evening Post, Life, The New York Times, et al; and was involved in photographing numerous films, including"Sin of Jesus" (1960) and "O.K. End Here" (1963), both directed by Robert Frank. In addition to this work, Berliner pursued many private projects, including the series of photographs shown here taken on New York subways without the subjects knowing they were being photographed, and the series of single figures, walking. This last series, "All the lonely people", was recently published as a two-page spread in "New York" magazine (December 2006), and has just won a merit award from the Society of Publication Designers. Berliner's photographs will also be included in the important "American Photography" annual for 2006. As well as his work as a photographer, Berliner was an active painter and taught at Brooklyn College in the late-1950s, and at New York University, and the School of Visual Arts, from 1967 to 1971. He has had one-man shows at Fleischman Gallery, New York in 1959 and 1960; Galleria Il Griffo, Rome, 1974; Gallery La Nuova Margutta, Rome 1975; and has had work included in numerous group exhibitions. An exhibition of Berliner's photographs relating to Nazi concentration camps, "Silent Places - A Pilgrimage", was held in 1995 at Kunsthaus Schoenberg, Berlin. |