Berlin Border Closed
Photograph
Berlin Border Closed
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/4 × 6 3/8 in. (23.5 × 16.2 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0519
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, BC: 8/61 18) BERLIN BORDER CLOSED: once the scene of heavy East-West traffic, \ now a dog and an old gunstock are the only occupants of this \ crossing point between East and West Berlin. Behind the barbed \ wire, the concrete piles erected by East Berlin soliders. \ Credit: RENE BURRI © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
