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Erich Lessing: 50 Years Of Photography

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Erich Lessing | 50 Years Of Photography The American film maker John Huston directing the the film 'Moby Dick', adapted from the novel by Hermann Melville. Canary Islands, Spain. 1954. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | 50 Years Of Photography The American actor Gregory Peck playing Captain Ahab in John Huston's film 'Moby Dick'. Canary Islands, Spain. 1954. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | 50 Years Of Photography Marcel Marceau, French mime artist who created the figure of 'Bip' a tragic white clown, in his dressing room. On the left the American actor Stan Laurel. Paris, France. 1958. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | 50 Years Of Photography George London rehearsing in the bathtub of his apartment. Vienna, Austria. 1955. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | 50 Years Of Photography Meeting at the Eiffel Tower. (Left to right) German Ambassador Wilhelm Hausenstein; West-German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer; the French High Commissioner André Francois-Poncet and German press-chief (...)
Erich Lessing | 50 Years Of Photography Imre Nagy, Hungarian liberal reform Communist with his granddaughter Katalin. Budapest, Hungary. 1956. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | 50 Years Of Photography Federal President Dr. Theodor Körner on the terrace of the presidential residence. Vienna, Austria. 1953. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | 50 Years Of Photography The German politician Kurt Schumacher, chairman of the West-German Social-Democratic Party and leader of the parliamentary group. He lost a leg and an arm in World War I and spent years in Nazi con (...)
Erich Lessing Meeting of the Allied Council of Austria.

Caps of the four occupation powers. At the end of the war the Allies : USA, Great-Britain, France and Soviet Union occupied the country. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | 50 Years Of Photography Meeting of the veterans of the German 'Afrika Korps', Fieldmarshal Rommel's Army in North Africa. In the foreground: a young boy wears his dead father's medals. Goslar, Germany. 1951. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing HUNGARY: Magyarovar. October.1956

Revolutionaries have executed a member of the Communist Secret Police, the "AVO". © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | 50 Years Of Photography Woman repairing tracks in the former Hohenzollern Coal mine. Bytom, Poland. 1956. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | 50 Years Of Photography Outside of the former central office of 'Szabad Nép', crowds try to catch the first edition of 'Függetlenség' (Independence). Budapest, Hungry. 1956. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | 50 Years Of Photography Before the building of the Berlin Wall, an elderly woman leaves the Soviet Sector of Berlin, carrying her meagre possessions. Berlin, Germany. 1951. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | 50 Years Of Photography 10, Downing Street. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill welcomes German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. London, England. 1954. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing | 50 Years Of Photography The Lenin Museum, former pub where the first meeting of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party was held, converted into a museum. Poronin, Poland. 1956. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos