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Niggemeyer's parents ran a retail photo shop and laboratory in Bochum. After finishing school in 1950, she started vocational training as a photographer at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Lichtbildwesen in Munich, following the wishes of her parents. She showed little interest in the
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Niggemeyer's photos offer striking evidence thereof, confronting lush decorum found in Berlin's fin-de-siècle architecture with the dreariness of its contemporary neighborhoods. In the words of one critic, "the result was devastating."
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Fotografien von Elisabeth Niggemeyer, in denen das Dekor der überlieferten Stadt gegen die karge, ausgenüchterte Nachkriegsmoderne ausgespielt wurde. Das Ergebnis war
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Siedler, Elisabeth Niggemeyer, Gina Angress: Die verordnete Gemütlichkeit, Abgesang auf Spielstraße, Verkehrsberuhigung u. Stadtbildpflege – Gemordete Stadt II.Teil. Quadriga/Severin, Berlin 1985, ISBN
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