Acknowledgements
Many, many thanks to Dr. Kate Palmer Albers, Dr. Susan Crane, Nils Beier, and das Bundesarchiv-Koblenz.
The author would also like to thank the following authors and their texts for their inspiration:
Batchen, Geoffrey. 2000. Each Wild Idea: Writing Photography History. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Boym, Svetlana. 2001. The Future of Nostalgia. New York: Basic Books.
Cadava, Eduardo. 1997. Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Cooke, Paul. 2005. Representing East Germany since Unification: From Colonization to Nostalgia. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers.
Hartewig, Karin, and Alf Lüdtke, eds. 2004. Die DDR im Bild: Zum Gebrauch der Fotografie im anderen deutschen Staat. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag.
Hirsch, Marianne. 1997. Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.