Double Identity

Double Identity

Photograph

Erich Lessing

Maker
Austrian, 1923–2018

Double Identity

1962
Gelatin silver print
Image (left): 6 15/16 × 4 3/4 in. (17.6 × 12 cm)
Image (right): 6 15/16 × 4 5/8 in. (17.6 × 11.8 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0585
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, BC: 10/62 23) DOUBLE IDENTITY: These two men might be two different persons. \ Instead they are the two faces of Dr. Gerhard Schroeder, Foreign Minister of \ West Germany. The first he wears for vacations. The second he is wearing in \ Washington. Schroeder, who is beginning to be mentioned as a possible \ successor to Chancellor Adenauer, conferred this week with Secretary of State \ Dean Rusk and President Kennedy on the Berlin crisis. \ Credit: Erich Lessing © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
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