Last Escape Routes Closed

Last Escape Routes Closed

Photograph

Dan Budnik

Maker
American, 1933–2020

Last Escape Routes Closed

The Wall Spells Loneliness


1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 3/8 × 6 1/4 in. (23.8 × 15.8 cm)
Paper: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.3 × 20.1 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0128
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Wall) 12/61 19) LAST ESCAPE ROUTES CLOSED: East German Vopo bricks up window \ on the Bernauerstrasse, thus closing a last tiny avenue of communications \ and possible escape. \ Credit: Dan Budnik © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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