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ERICH LESSING - PHOTOGRAPHY
ERICH LESSING - PHOTOGRAPHY
An exhibition organised by the Kunsthistorisches Museum at the
Palais Harrach, 1st floor
September 5 till October 13, 2002
Freyung 3, 1010 Vienna
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On September 5, 2002, an extensive exhibition dedicated to the photographic work of Erich Lessing will open at the Palais Harrach. It will bring together about 350 photographs and focus on the big themes of his black-and-white photographic essays from the post-war years. Erich Lessing was born in Vienna in 1923. In 1939, he was forced to emigrate to what was then the British Mandate Palestine. On his return ot Vienna in 1947, he started to work as a photo-reporter for the American news agency, Associated Press. Since 1951, Erich Lessing has been a member of Magnum Photos, an international cooperative of photographers with headquarters in Paris and New York. Lessing´s photographs document the depressing reality of life in Communist Europe, his pictures of refugees - Turks from Bulgaria, East Germans in the West - document the suffering and fear of all refugees, then as well as now. Lessing documented the big conferences, and the life of the workers both in the West and in the East.
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Selected objects (german only)
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