DARK POOLS:
Historic Swimming Pools in Berlin
Photo Art Book, "DARK POOLS"
Purchase online at Printed Matter or directly from author:
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/53988/
Leeside3@gmail.com
Exhibited at:
FORMAT Photo Book Market, Derby, UK. March, 2023
Rendez-Vous Images, Strasbourg, FR Jan 20-22, 2020
and at the NY Art Book Fair September 19-21, 2019
“Pleasure palaces from a turbulent past, “Dark Pools: Historic Swimming Pools of Berlin” dives into 100 years of German history as seen through the city’s elaborately designed swimming pools. In a nation that idolised its swimmers, its pools were often built to high standards, with styles ranging from Roman bath to minimalist Bauhaus. Striking photos of the site of the infamous Nazi Olympics show the pool still in use and looking much as it did in 1936, the summer American runner Jesse Owens made Olympic History. Another pool was transformed into a dance club – fitting in a city famed for a nightlife that attracted the likes of David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich.
The book forms a narrative around the periods in which the pools were built; an architectural timeline that stretches through the First World War, the Weimar period, the Third Reich, the Cold War and the Berlin Wall.
Sample photos below:
These photos are of historic swimming pools in Berlin Germany, with the exception of the one in the 3rd Row, 2nd column, which is in Vienna.
They represent distinct periods in German history and architecture. The open air pool (2nd row, 1st one) is the Olympic Stadium Pool from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, also called the Nazi Olympics. There is another view, 2nd photo from the bottom. Most of the pools shown are open and in use today.The exceptions are the Pankow pool (4th Row, 2nd one) which has fallen into decay, and the Stadtbad Wedding which became an art house and a dance-club (3rd Row, 1st one and also "schwimmeister", photos) The oldest one is the Neukoln pool, which opened in 1914. It is 2nd Row, 2nd one.
Historic Swimming Pools in Berlin
Photo Art Book, "DARK POOLS"
Purchase online at Printed Matter or directly from author:
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/53988/
Leeside3@gmail.com
Exhibited at:
FORMAT Photo Book Market, Derby, UK. March, 2023
Rendez-Vous Images, Strasbourg, FR Jan 20-22, 2020
and at the NY Art Book Fair September 19-21, 2019
“Pleasure palaces from a turbulent past, “Dark Pools: Historic Swimming Pools of Berlin” dives into 100 years of German history as seen through the city’s elaborately designed swimming pools. In a nation that idolised its swimmers, its pools were often built to high standards, with styles ranging from Roman bath to minimalist Bauhaus. Striking photos of the site of the infamous Nazi Olympics show the pool still in use and looking much as it did in 1936, the summer American runner Jesse Owens made Olympic History. Another pool was transformed into a dance club – fitting in a city famed for a nightlife that attracted the likes of David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich.
The book forms a narrative around the periods in which the pools were built; an architectural timeline that stretches through the First World War, the Weimar period, the Third Reich, the Cold War and the Berlin Wall.
Sample photos below:
These photos are of historic swimming pools in Berlin Germany, with the exception of the one in the 3rd Row, 2nd column, which is in Vienna.
They represent distinct periods in German history and architecture. The open air pool (2nd row, 1st one) is the Olympic Stadium Pool from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, also called the Nazi Olympics. There is another view, 2nd photo from the bottom. Most of the pools shown are open and in use today.The exceptions are the Pankow pool (4th Row, 2nd one) which has fallen into decay, and the Stadtbad Wedding which became an art house and a dance-club (3rd Row, 1st one and also "schwimmeister", photos) The oldest one is the Neukoln pool, which opened in 1914. It is 2nd Row, 2nd one.
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