Beautiful 1980s portraits capture the vibrant residents of a single East Berlin street

The rock group Phonolog.

Image: Harf Zimmermann

In 1981, Harf Zimmermann moved into a fifth-floor walkup apartment on Hufelandstrasse, a cobblestone street in East Berlin.

The neighborhood was an anomaly in the increasingly drab Soviet-administered city. Buildings boasted proud facades and balconies, linden trees lined the...