SLIMANE, Hedi. Berlin.

(Gottingen, Germany): Edition 7L / Steidl, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 28.4cm by 20.7cm. 156 pages. A powerful collection of Slimane’s stark black-and-white photographs documenting the Berlin underground and youth scene during his residency at the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art between 2000 and 2002. Featuring portraits, street scenes, interiors, musicians, and urban landscapes, the work anticipates the aesthetic vocabulary that would define Slimane’s later photography and fashion practice at Dior Homme and Saint Laurent. Illustrated throughout with monochrome photographic plates. A fine copy in the original slipcase, still sealed.