What is Their Future?
Photograph
What is Their Future?
East Germans – Behind the Wall
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/8 × 9 1/4 in. (15.5 × 23.5 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0056
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso BC: (east Germans) 9/61 15) WHAT IS THEIR FUTURE? This teenage couple, \ intense in their young love, live not only under the threat \ of war as do their West German compatriots but also under \ the restrictions of the Communist regime. Photographer Erich Lessing caught this unusually candid shot in a Dresden \ jazz club. Party Boss Ulbricht has since advised youngsters \ to forego the pleasures of western style rock n' roll. \ Credit: Erich Lessing © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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