Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]+1! Tina On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 10:07 AM, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > fascinating stuff > > ric > > > > On Jul 29, 2018, at 1:36 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > > > > In connection with our upcoming move, I have been packing books and > other things, including stuff that I have kept from my father?s things > since he died in 2004. I discarded things (newspapers etc.) that he had > kept but that had no obvious connection to him. I kept copies of articles > that he had published and various other writings, and of course all the old > family photos. But what I want to share here is an interesting historical > document?interesting, both because of the events it depicts but also of the > status that photography once had. It is basically a set of nine > postcard-sized photos of Kennedy?s visit to West Berlin in 1961 (this is > when he delivered his famous ?Ich bin ein Berliner? address) in a small > cardboard enclosure. On the front it simply says ?President Kennedy in > Berlin?; on the back the publisher is identified?Kunst und Bild?and the > buyer is assured that the enclosure contains ?nine genuine photos?. > > > > I have no idea when and how my father got hold of this. It must have > been published shortly after the visit, but I assume that it was on sale in > Communist Poland where we lived at the time, nor in East Germany, a country > my father visited often. I suspect that he might have picked it up in West > Germany on his way to France some time in the 1960s?he went a couple of > times to visit the French branch of the Wajsmans, and in those days such a > trip was made by train. He always made those trips alone, the authorities > would not let us all travel to the West, so effectively my mother and I > were the assurance that he would not defect. > > > > In any event, at the tiny risk of infringing the copyright of Kunst und > Bild (tiny, because German copyright on published photographs lasts 50 > years after first publication, and I am assuming that these were published > shortly after Kennedy?s visit in 1961, so more than 50 years ago), here > they are: > > > > https://www.greatpix.eu/Kennedy-in-Berlin/ > > > > A memento of a time when photographs were valued possessions and when a > US president visiting Europe came here with significant moral authority. > Both in contrast to today?s situation. > > > > Cheers, > > Nathan > > > > Nathan Wajsman > > > > Alicante, Spain > > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html>