Erich Lessing Palais de l'Elysée.
From the left : President René COTY and Charles DE GAULLE.
Unable to solve the Algerian crisis the French government of Pierre PFLIMLIN resigned.
President rené COTY asked Ge (...)
Erich Lessing First election of a beauty queen in communist Poland. Contest for "Miss Sopot" drew such huge crowds that the event had to be moved to the roof of the casino of that once elegant sea-side resort. S (...)
Erich Lessing In the back ground Swiss President Petitpierre greeting General Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the USA upon arrival. Switzerland. Geneva. 1955. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Germany. Berlin. Children hunting for scrap in the ruins. 1951. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing April 1951. Meeting at the Eiffel Tower. From left to right, German Ambassador Wilhelm HAUSENSTEIN; West-German Chancellor Konrad ADENAUER, visiting Paris as the first German statesman after the wa (...)
Erich Lessing The war-damaged city of Berlin. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Prague. Monument dedicated to Stalin. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing West-Berlin. "Werkelmann", a barrel organ player. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing FRANCE . Paris. Opera garnier house. 1973. Italian director Giorgio STREHLER rehearsing for "Figaro's Wedding". © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Budapest. Following the fighting and insurrection a Hungarian truck with black flags collects bodies near Killian barracks. A Hugarian soldier has replaced the red star of his cap by the Hungarian (...)
Erich Lessing January 1965. Inside St. Paul's cathedral. Center: French President Charles DE GAULLE, next to him in uniform JEAN Granduke of Luxemburg. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing AUSTRIA. Austro-Hungarian border. Town of Andau. Hungarian refugees fleeing the National insurgency in a temporary shelter. By December 1956 155.000 refugees had crossed the Austro-Hungarian border (...)
Erich Lessing Upper Silesia. Town of Bytom. Little girl carrying beers for dinner.
Upper Silesia was the center of Polish coalmining. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Upper Silesia was the center of Polish coalmining. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Town of Edirne.
Registration in a Turkish refugee camp.
Based in Bulgaria since the domination of the Ottoman Empire 14th century, the Turkish minority had to leave the country under the communis (...)
Erich Lessing AUSTRIA. Salzburg. The British actress Julie ANDREWS as Maria Trapp in "The Sound of Music" directed by Robert WISE. 1964. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing The American actor Gregory Peck playing Captain Ahab in John Huston's film "Moby Dick" adapted from the novel by Hermann Melville. Entangled in the ropes of his harpon he is drowned by the white wh (...)
Erich Lessing Town of Bonn. 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 yea (...)
Erich Lessing 8th arrondissement. Maurice CHEVALIER illustrates one of his song :
"Un gentleman en hiver comme en été
porte toujours un chapeau Locke bien bombé,
et par un temps de pluie
il n'ouvre jamais, j (...)
Erich Lessing France. Paris. 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. 1958. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Town of Leipzig.
The leaders of the GDR (German Democratic Republic) conspicously displayed: Walter ULBRICHT secretary of the Communist Party, Wilhelm PIECK President of the GDR; Otto GROTEWOHL P (...)
Erich Lessing HUNGARY. Budapest. October-November 1956. Insurrection. The body of a fallen Soviet soldier on Jozsef Boulevard. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing FRANCE. Paris. 6th arrondissement. In front of the Pont-Neuf. Maurice CHEVALIER illustrates one of his song :
"Ma pomme, c'est moi,
j'suis plus heureux qu'un roi,
en douce
je m'pousse..." © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
"Ma pomme, c'est moi,
j'suis plus heureux qu'un roi,
en douce
je m'pousse..." © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Rhineland-Westphalia. Town of Rhoendorf, near Bonn.
Konrad ADENAUER, Chancellor of West-Germany, praying during Sunday-mass at the church of Rhoendorf, where he has his home. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Konrad ADENAUER, Chancellor of West-Germany, praying during Sunday-mass at the church of Rhoendorf, where he has his home. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing HUNGARY. Budapest. October 30th, 1956. Insurrection. Janos Mesz, 'Janko of the wooden leg', one of the leaders of the rebel group Corvin Lane, at the Erkel Theatre on Koztarsasag Square. © 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
Revolutionaries have executed a member of the Communist Secret Police, the "AVO". © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Crete. The American actor Anthony QUINN as Zorba. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing GERMANY. West Berlin. 1957. Herbert von KARAJAN, Austrian conductor, conducting the Berlin Philarmonic Orchestra. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Village of Kalocsa. During Corpus Christi (Body and Blood of Christ) Catholic procession in honor to the Blessed Sacrament. Elderly women praying during an open-air mass.
Under Hungarian Commun (...)
Erich Lessing Heldenplatz. In Vienna's quadripartite first district.
Army photographers document the monthly change of guard among occupation powers US and Soviet officers. At the end of WWII the Allies : USA, (...)
Erich Lessing AUSTRIA. During Austrian parliamentary elections campaign. Conservative Chancellor Leopold FIGL adresses voters from the stage of a village-theatre. 1953. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing GERMANY. Cologne. In front of the new city hall. Behind him the German Chacellor Konrad ADENAUER and his son. The tower of the old city hall, destroyed during the war, can be seen in the background (...)
Erich Lessing Upper Silesia. Town of Bytom. Coal mines. Woman repairing tracks in the former Hohenzollern-mine.
Upper Silesia was the center of Polish coalmining.
Coal was one of Communist Poland's major expo (...)
Erich Lessing The Canadian pianist Glenn GOULD during a rehearsal with the Berlin Philarmonic Orchestra.
GERMANY. West Berlin, 1957. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
GERMANY. West Berlin, 1957. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing AUSTRIA. During Austrian parliamentary elections campaign. Conservative Chancellor Leopold FIGL adresses voters from the stage of a village-theatre. 1953. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing GERMANY. Cologne. In front of the new city hall. Behind him the German Chacellor Konrad ADENAUER and his son. The tower of the old city hall, destroyed during the war, can be seen in the background (...)
Erich Lessing HUNGARY. Budapest. October-November 1956. Insurrection. Corvin Lane around November 1st, 1956 during the days of the cease-fire. In the foreground, a captured Soviet truck, a BTR-152 APC, on which (...)
Erich Lessing The Canadian pianist Glenn GOULD during a rehearsal with the Berlin Philarmonic Orchestra.
GERMANY. West Berlin, 1957. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
GERMANY. West Berlin, 1957. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing HUNGARY. Budapest. October-November 1956. Insurrection. Corvin Lane around November 1st, 1956 during the days of the cease-fire. In the foreground, a captured Soviet truck, a BTR-152 APC, on which (...)
Erich Lessing Warsaw.
Among well-wishers, Cardinal Stefan WYSZYNSKI, Primate of Poland, released after 3 years of exile and confinement in a Polish monastery. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Among well-wishers, Cardinal Stefan WYSZYNSKI, Primate of Poland, released after 3 years of exile and confinement in a Polish monastery. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Silesia. Town of Czestochova.
Annual pilgrimage to the Black Madonna a Franciscan Shrine dedicated to Blessed Mother Mary, revered as the Queen of Peace and Mercy.
Souvenir photograph for a g (...)
Erich Lessing Bernard BUFFET in his studio, on the right a portrait of his wife Annabel. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing West Germany. Town of Goslar.
Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's Army in North Africa. The missing father and son generation.
In the foreground : a yo (...)
Erich Lessing Czestochowa. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Town of Edirne. Turks expelled from Bulgaria arriving by train at Edirne railway station.
Based in Bulgaria since the domination of the Ottoman Empire 14th century, the Turkish minority had to lea (...)
Erich Lessing GERMANY. West Berlin. 1957.
Canadian pianist Glenn GOULD (left) and Austrian conductor Herbert von KARAJAN during a rehearsal with the Berlin Philarmonic Orchestra. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Canadian pianist Glenn GOULD (left) and Austrian conductor Herbert von KARAJAN during a rehearsal with the Berlin Philarmonic Orchestra. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Bohemia region. Sternberck Castle. Count Leopold STERNBERG shows visitors his expropriated castle in which he was permitted to stay as a tourist guide. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Nikita Sergejevich KHRUSHCHEV, first secretary of the Central Commitee of the Communist Party, joking with Soviet Minister of Defence Marshal ZHUKOV. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Before the building of the Berlin Wall, an elderly woman leaves the Soviet Sector of Berlin, carrying her meagre possessions. 1951. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing SWITZERLAND. Geneva. The Geneva Summit. July 1955.
Soviet Prime Minister Nikolaï A. BOULGANINE, US President Dwight D. EISENHOWER, French Prime Minister Edgar FAURE and British Prime Minister Sir (...)
Erich Lessing Town of Constantine. DE GAULLE's first task as head of governement was to defuse the situation in Algeria. In a four-day visit he tried to calm the Algerian population as well as the French "colons (...)
Erich Lessing Silesia. Town of Czestochova. Monastery of Jasna Gora (Bright Hill).
Annual pilgrimage to the Black Madonna a Franciscan Shrine dedicated to Blessed Mother Mary, revered as the Queen of Peace a (...)
Erich Lessing Canary Islands 1954.
The American actor Gregory PECK playing Captain Ahab in John HUSTON's film "Moby Dick"; adapted from the novel by Hermann MELVILLE. Entangled in the ropes of his harpon he is (...)
Erich Lessing FRANCE. Paris. French singer and actor Maurice CHEVALIER. 1954. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing 10, Downing Street.
British Prime Minister Winston CHURCHILL welcomes German Chancellor Konrad ADENAUER. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
British Prime Minister Winston CHURCHILL welcomes German Chancellor Konrad ADENAUER. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing HUNGARY. Budapest. October, 1956.
Insurrection. October-November 1956.
Bystanders try to catch the first issue of the new, pro-revolution communist party paper. When Imre Nagy became prime mini (...)
Erich Lessing GEORGIA. Town of Tiflis. Stocking factory.
The director and Communist Party secretary sit under flags conferred to the workers for exceeding production norms. The factory produced stockings of one (...)
Erich Lessing HUNGARY. 1956. Village of Karzag in the putza region, or Hungarian steppes. The mail coach. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Silesia region. Town of Nova Huta. Vacant lot and new housing developments. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing 15th of December 1960. Wedding of King BAUDOIN of Belgium & Doña Fabiola de MORA Y ARAGON. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing FRANCE. Champagne-Ardenne region. Marne. Pleurs. 1960. KROUTCHEV visiting Pleurs's burg.
Village of Pleurs.
Furious over the U-2 plane incident, Soviet Premier Nikita KHRUSHCHEV went on a nosta (...)
Erich Lessing POLAND. Nova Huta. 1956.
Saturday afternoon in Nova Huta:Soldiers at the fairground. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Saturday afternoon in Nova Huta:Soldiers at the fairground. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Silesia region. Town of Nova Huta. In strongly Catholic Poland it is not unusual to see people kneeling in the street when a priest and his acolyte pass with the host. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Warsaw. Father and son walking towards polling-station past houses still in ruins 12 years after the World War II. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing FRANCE.French Pyrenées. Town of Prades 1951. Catalan cellist Pablo CASALS in his exile from Franco-Spain. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing TURKEY. Europe's last displaced people. 1951. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Alfried KRUPP VON BOHLEN UND HALBACH and his General Manager Berthold BEITZ.
Krupp, scion of the world famous arms and manufacturers dynasty, was sentenced to a prison term by an Allied court, tr (...)
Erich Lessing Town of Salzburg. Oskar KOKOSCHKA writing. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing GERMANY. Berlin. 1957. Austrian conductor Herbert von KARAJAN rehearsing for the Lucerne Festival. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing HUNGARY. Insurrection. Budapest. Vaci ut (street). October-November 1956.
The Soviet bookshop "Horizon" is attacked by revolutionaries; books and portraits of hated communist leaders are burnt in (...)
Erich Lessing Poronin near Zakopane.
The Lenin Museum, former pub where the first meeting of the Central Comittee of the Russian Communist Party was held, converted into a museum. LENIN spent a few years in (...)
Erich Lessing WEST GERMANY. Gruner and Sons, printers, in Itzehoe. This is West Germany's largest printing plant which does all the printing of the illustrated paper "Der Stern". © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Meeting of the Second Socialist International. Golda MEIR, Israelian Prime minister, behind her the Austrian Chancellor Bruno KREISKY. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing AUSTRIA. Vienna. 1958.
Debutantes Ball. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Debutantes Ball. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing AUSTRIA. Vienna. A children's fashion show. 1954. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing French mime artist Marcel MARCEAU. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing WEST GERMANY. Divided Berlin. 1958.
Cooped up in their enclave,West-Berliners have little choice where to spend their week-end.A nap in a parking lot on Wannsee-Lake, © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Cooped up in their enclave,West-Berliners have little choice where to spend their week-end.A nap in a parking lot on Wannsee-Lake, © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Canary Islands 1954.
The American film maker John HUSTON directing the shooting of the film "Moby Dick" adapted from the novel by Hermann MELVILLE. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
The American film maker John HUSTON directing the shooting of the film "Moby Dick" adapted from the novel by Hermann MELVILLE. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing ETATS UNIS. New York City.
New York, USA: domenica a Central park. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
New York, USA: domenica a Central park. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Eve Arnold USA. Erich Lessing photographing for Saturday Evening Post. The subject is Thanksgiving. 1961. © Eve Arnold | Magnum Photos
Ferdinando Scianna Austrian photographer Erich Lessing. Paris, France. 1992. © Ferdinando Scianna | Magnum Photos
Magnum Collection FRANCE. Paris. 1957. Magnum Photos Meeting. From left to right. Foreground: Inge BONDI, John MORRIS, Barbara MILLER, Cornell CAPA, Rene BURRI, Erich LESSING.
Middle: Michel CHEVALIER. Background: (...)
Erich Hartmann AUSTRIA. Vienna. 1955. Photographer Erich LESSING. © Erich Hartmann | Magnum Photos
Magnum Collection The Austrian photographer Erich LESSING. Courtesy Bruno Le Hir de Fallois. © Magnum Collection | Magnum Photos
Magnum Collection The Austrian photographer Erich LESSING. © Magnum Collection | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing Furious over the U-2 plane incident, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev went on a nostalgic tour to the village of Pleurs where he and his new Minister of defence, Rodion D. Malinowsk, spent a few we (...)
Erich Lessing General De Gaulle saluting the guard of honour during a four-day visit he tried to calm the Algerian population as well as the French 'colons'. Constantine, Algeria. 1958. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
Erich Lessing In the back ground Swiss President Petitpierre greeting General Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the USA upon arrival. Geneva, Switzerland. 1955. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
