Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks to all for looking. Obviously, I did not make these photos so I cannot take any credit for them, but I was certainly happy to be able to share them with the lists. 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 > On 29 Jul 2018, at 23:46, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > +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> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information