Blick nach Osten. Zweites Münchner Fotosymposion (Face to East. On the 2nd Munich Fotosymposium)

Entitled "Between Elbe and Wolga", this second symposium invited
photographers from Russia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgary,
Czechoslovakia and East Germany. The author points out that only
photojournalists and documentary photographers were invited. A
further criticism was the failure to differentiate between the
various photographic cultures in East European countries, and to
clarify something of the history, the photographic
infrastructure and the degree of communication among these
countries. The invited photographers gave a slide presentations
of their work. Most of the work shown was concerned with
"Spurensicherung", documenting threatened communities in the
east. The exhibition & catalogue accompanying the symposium is
titled "Zwischen Elbe and Wolga".(German)