What: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan is exhibiting works of noted German photographer, Helga Paris.
<img title="Buildings and Faces: Halle, 1983-85, 24 cm x 35.8 cm" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/jul/Paris-1.jpg" alt="Buildings and Faces: Halle, 1983-85, 24 cm x 35.8 cm" /> Buildings and Faces: Halle, 1983-85, 24 cm x 35.8 cm
Titled Selected Photographs: Helga Paris, an exhibition by the Institut for Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), it features rare images from East Germany, especially gentle portraits of its people.
<img title="Ahrenshoop, 1984, Silver Gelatin Print, 25 cm x 37.6 cm. Pics courtesy/Institute for Foreign Relations, Germany" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/jul/Paris-2.jpg" alt="Ahrenshoop, 1984, Silver Gelatin Print, 25 cm x 37.6 cm. Pics courtesy/Institute for Foreign Relations, Germany" /> Ahrenshoop, 1984, Silver Gelatin Print, 25 cm x 37.6 cm. Pics courtesy/Institute for Foreign Relations, Germany
How: Born in 1938, in Goleniow, Poland, Paris has lived in Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin since 1966. Her works are excellent chronicles of post-war history of East Germany.
<img title="Self in the Mirror, 1971, Silver Gelatin Print, 30 cm x 22.5 cm" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/jul/Paris-3.jpg" alt="Self in the Mirror, 1971, Silver Gelatin Print, 30 cm x 22.5 cm" /> Self in the Mirror, 1971, Silver Gelatin Print, 30 cm x 22.5 cm
Paris is known for her compassion towards her subjects, a quality that is translated to the photographs produced, they show the subtleness with which she understood their lives. The subjects of her photographs include working women, pub customers and children.
<img title="Faces and Buildings: Halle, 1983-85, Silver Gelatin Print, 35.8 x 24 cm" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/jul/Paris-4.jpg" alt="Faces and Buildings: Halle, 1983-85, Silver Gelatin Print, 35.8 x 24 cm" /> Faces and Buildings: Halle, 1983-85, Silver Gelatin Print, 35.8 x 24 cm
Where: Till: July 31 At: Gallery MMB, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Kala Ghoda. Call: 22027542
<img title="Transylvania, 1980, Silver Gelatin Print, 35.8 x 24 cm" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/jul/Paris-5.jpg" alt="Transylvania, 1980, Silver Gelatin Print, 35.8 x 24 cm" /> Transylvania, 1980, Silver Gelatin Print, 35.8 x 24 cm

A retrospective of the works of photographer Helga Paris

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A retrospective of the works of photographer Helga Paris

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