Authority Omnipresent
Photograph
Authority Omnipresent
East Germans - Behind a Wall
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 5/16 in. (15.9 × 23.6 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0047
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso C: EAST GERMANS - BEHIND A WALL \ (East Germans) 9/61 6) AUTHORITY OMNIPRESENT in Communist-controlled \ East Germany. Giant posters such as these portraits of \ Party Boss Walter Ulbricht, President Wilhelm Pieck (now \ deceased) and Premier Otto Grotewohl on a Leipzig wall, \ remind the citizen of the power of the state. \ Credit: Erich Lessing © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
Inscribed in black ink on applied label on verso TR: (L. to R.)
Inscribed in black ink on applied label on verso TR: (L. to R.)
