With an eye trained by modernist painting and early Soviet, Italian, and French cinema and influenced by theatre and poetry, self-taught

photographer Helga Paris developed an extensive oeuvre of gently nuanced black-and-white images over a period of four and a half decades. The great trust and confidence that people had in her as an artist and as a person are a hallmark of all her portraits. Her subjects open themselves up to her and let her into their lives. The photographs show figures like Christa Wolf, Elke Erb, and Charlotte E. Pauly in private moments as well as the literary counter-public of Prenzlauer Berg and its protagonists.

The book is accompanied by texts penned by publisher Gerhard Wolf and curator and art historian Eugen Blume. Paris's portraits of artists and writers in the GDR are being published for the first time in book form in conjunction with an exhibition at the Leonhardi Museum in Dresden.

赫尔加·帕里斯（Helga Paris）是一位自学成才的摄影师，她受过现代主义绘画和早期苏联、意大利和法国电影的训练，并受到戏剧和诗歌的影响，在长达45年的时间里，创作了大量柔和细致的黑白照片。她所有肖像画中独特的特征是备受人们喜爱的原因。她的拍摄对象向她敞开心扉，让她进入他们的生活。这些照片展示了克里斯塔·沃尔夫（Christa Wolf）、艾尔克·埃尔伯（Elke Erb）和夏洛特·E·保利（Charlotte E. Pauly）等人物的私人时刻，以及普伦茨劳贝格的文学反公众及其主角们。该书附有出版商葛哈德·沃尔夫（Gerhard Wolf）和策展人兼艺术史学家欧根·布鲁姆（Eugen Blume）撰写的文字。帕里斯为民主德国的艺术家和作家拍摄的肖像画首次以书的形式出版，与德累斯顿莱的昂哈蒂博物馆的展览同时进行。