[Leica] IMG: Kennedy in Berlin, 1961

[Tina Manley]

+1!

Tina

On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 10:07 AM, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> fascinating stuff
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> > On Jul 29, 2018, at 1:36 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> wrote:
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> > 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”.
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> > 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.
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> > 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:
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> > https://www.greatpix.eu/Kennedy-in-Berlin/
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> > 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
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> > Nathan Wajsman
> >
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