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In his outstanding reportage photographs, master of photography Erich
Lessing captures the humanity of an era of history which will
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From
left to right: 1. Willy Brandt, mayor of West Berlin, addressing crowds in 1959 - 7-L6-Z59-07-03-31; 2. Konrad Adenauer travelling to a meeting during the 1953 West German elections - 7-L6-Z53-02-09-05; |
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3. President Eisenhower arrives at the 1955 Geneva Conference - 7-L6-Z55-04-04-16; 4. at the same conference, Khrushchev shares a joke with Zhukov - 7-L6-Z55-04-14-13; |
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5. the ruins of the German Reichstag, 1955 - 7-L6-Z55-11-07-11; 6. Budapest, 1956: a disabled Soviet tank during the Hungarian Revolution - 7-L6-Z56-09-08-32; |
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7. the poignant Ghetto Monument in Warsaw, 1956 - 7-L6-Z56-08-43-18; 8. the ruins of the Philipphof in Vienna, bombed in 1945, photographed three years later - 7-L6-Z48-01-01-01; |
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9. prefab housing in Hoyerswerda, East Germany, 1959 - 7-L6-Z59-22-05-03; 10. ship building in Hamburg, 1958 - 7-L6-Z58-13-27-15; |
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11. wheels and axles are checked at a Krupp factory in Essen, 1957 -
7-L6-Z55-20-05-05; 12. and miners at work nearby in 1951 - 7-L6-Z51-08-03-23; |
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13. a little girl with bottles of beer in Bytom, Upper Silesia, 1956
- 7-L6-Z56-08-23-29; 14. a boy selling flowers in Sopot, Poland, 1956 - 7-L6-Z56-08-40-11; |
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15. hunting for scrap in the ruins of Berlin, 1951 - 7-L6-Z51-01-46-12; 16. a kindergarten outing in Dresden, 1959 - 7-L6-Z59-22-15-11; |
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17. a lady in the Austrian National Library in Vienna, 1953 - 7-L6-Z53-13-33-41; 18. an Austrian man listens to a speaker during Austrian elections, 1953 - 7-L6-Z53-13-62-01; |
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19. Cabbages for sale near Rostock, East Germany, 1959 - 7-L6-Z59-22-26-37; |
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21. choosing a cake in Patisserie Demel, Vienna, 1954 - 7-L6-Z54-12-06-28; 22. inspecting sausages in a show window in Prague, 1956 - 7-L6-Z56-06-28-24; |
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23. fine dining on the sea shore at Kystenperle, Denmark, 1961 -7-L6-Z61-11-02-14; 24. dinner at home in Dresden, 1959 - 7-L6-Z59-22-55-18; |
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25. Czech folk musicians, Strasnice, 1956 - 7-L6-Z56-06-59-16; 26. Saturday afternoon in a Hamburg pub, 1958 - 7-L6-Z58-11-18-05; |
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27. East Berliners playing chess in a park, 1958 - 7-L6-Z58-10-15-25; 28. West Berliners picnicking near Lake Wannsee in the same year - 7-L6-Z58-10-14-17; |
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29. Belgian miners wait for a cage lift, 1951 - 7-L6-Z51-08-04-15; 30. young couples dancing at the Viennese opera ball, 1960 - 7-L6-Z60-07-05-23; |
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31. 1959 May Day celebrations in East Berlin - 7-L6-Z59-07-01-21; and 32. All Souls' Day 1982 in a cemetery in Schattendorf, half of which was in Austria, the other half in Soviet Hungary - 7-L6-Z52-05-03-06. |
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