I Was Good

I Was Good

Diana Slip fetishwear, Paris, 1920s; Photo by Brassai (read more on Diana Slip anothermag.com. Embroidery by amanda jasnowski pascual via @hokaytokay (images via tumblr.com/blog/mimi-berlin

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Did you know that we have an international sex day? It’s on the 9th of JUne…Fun!

People sometimes ask of us; what is it that you do Mimi Berlin? You keep posting all kinds of images with all kinds of topics…. Well, we answer, we read these images. Equally important we edit them, not with Photoshop, but we like to combine images to create new visions or ideas.

Edward Steichen’s Garden

Edward Steichen’s Garden

Edward Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a photographer, that much we knew at Mimi Berlin. What we didn’t know was his, also famous, garden. Voila. now we all know of Mr Steichen’s other passion; Flowers and Plants!

We don’t know the work of Mr Steichen, we hear you say. Well you probably do! Continue reading

Hungarian Cubes by Katharina Roters

Hungarian Cubes by Katharina Roters

Subversive ornaments in socialism. Collective and private expression, conformity and subtle subversion: The “Magyar Kocka” and its ornamentation.

Flipping through Frankie Magazine we stumbled upon these photo’s by Katharina Roters.
She made a photo essay on altered “Magyar Kocka, or Hungarian Cube, a standardized type of residential house in Hungary that dates back to the 1920s. It was designed as a radically functional single-family home for Budapest’s suburbs and housing projects, but it became closely identified with the postwar communist era, when many villages were rebuilt with uniform rows of single-family homes, and the Hungarian Cube—often renamed the Kádár Kocka, after Hungary’s communist president, János Kádár, became ubiquitous. Edited and with photographs by Katharina Roters. With texts by Hannes Böhringer, Endre Prakfalvi, Zsolt Szijártó and József Szolnoki” (read more uchicago.edu)

Hungarian Cubes,1st edition, 2014, Text English and German. Hardback 172 pages, 123 color illustrations, 22 x 25 cm, ISBN 978-3-906027-43-2 (images via/buy at park books)