#1 east german soldiers share a laugh with the west german public, who are sitting on the wall, east berlin, germany, november 10, 1989
#2 the press gathers to watch east germans cross the border into the west, west berlin, germany, november 10, 1989
photo by mark power, from my photojournalism blog reprtg
“live as if you were to die tomorrow. learn as if you were to live forever.” — gandhi
on this day in 1948, the indian peace activist mohandas karamchand gandhi was assassinated. MAGNUM founder henri cartier-bresson was in india at the time and photographed gandhi the day before and the morning of his death.
photo by henri cartier-bresson, from henri cartier-bresson: the man, the image & the world
early dawn in the countryside in heilongjiang province, china, december 21, 1964
photo by li zhensheng, from red-color news soldiers
“…in a radiant dawn over farmland we see two young peasants, presented as both humble and heroic, setting off in search of manure to fertilize the fields. there are also the parades, the patriotic songs that even the children sing, the female soldiers, the posters with mao’s image…” but these pictures are paired with the images of public trials, pillory, placards with insults hung around people’s necks and capital punishment. li, with the red band of a soldier of information on his arm, took the pictures and hid them away. and twenty years later, after one of the longest development processes in the history of photojournalism, he finally printed them.
a couple walks down dircksenstraße, near alexanderplatz, berlin, germany, 1945
the burning building behind them was nothing special in the chaotic days at the end of the war
color photograph of kharkiv under the nazi occupation, 1942
kharkiv, as many other cities in the western part of the USSR, was occupied by the nazi army in the wwii. it was a big industrial city in the soviet ukraine, and so it was very important for the german army to take it as soon as possible. nazi troops entered kharkiv, once the capital of ukraine, on 25 october, 1941. it was at last liberated in february 1943, though not for long. kharkiv was soon retaken by enemy troops and the soviet army only finally set it free on august 23, 1943
wife and daughter of u.s. soldier sitting in first class dining car of train looking out window, opposite displaced germans
photo by walter sanders, taken somewhere between berlin and bremmerhaven, germany, 1946
destroyed in 1945, gustav klimt, schubert at the piano, 1899 (via fuckyeahclassicart)
one of my fav of klimt’s works. after a final exhibition in 1943, this, and many other klimt paintings, were moved to schloss immendorf, a castle in the south of austria, for protection. but the nazis burned the place down in may 1945 to prevent it falling into enemy hands.
god knows how many masterpieces were lost forever…
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