[Demonstrators carrying a Communist flag in the street, April 26, 1977, Guernica, Spain]

[Demonstrators carrying a Communist flag in the street, April 26, 1977, Guernica, Spain]

Photograph

Leonard Freed

Maker
American, 1929–2006

[Demonstrators carrying a Communist flag in the street, April 26, 1977, Guernica, Spain]

1977
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/16 × 6 1/8 in. (23 × 15.5 cm)
Paper: 9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in. (23.9 × 18 cm)
Gift of Steven and Claudia Schwartz, 2019
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on verso, TLC: LFSP-46.4 3500
Inscribed in pencil on verso, TC: 1977 [underlined] GUERNICA, SPAIN.
Printed in ink on applied label on verso, RC: MAG00100394- \ 378
Stamped in ink on verso, C: "GUERNICA" 40 years after its devastation, April 26, 1977. Spain. 77-24 \ It was 40 years ago on the 26th April 1937 that planes of Hitler's "Condor \ Legion" destroyed the Sacred town of the Basques "Guernica" on the Bay of Biscay \ near Bilbao. German Heinkele and Junker planes set the town ablaze with their \ incendary bombs, but the following day Franco's propaganda machine spread the \ rumor tha tthe town had been burnt by its inhabitants rather than deliver it to \ the enemy. For the first time the authorities have allowed a mass memorial \ reunion for the survivors of the bombing and machine gun firing squads. Its \ present 19,000 inhabitants have not forgotten their tragic history, school - \ shildren of the Bilbao art school made a full scale reproduction of Picasso's \ "Guernica" mural and displayed it in front of the city Hall. \ Photos by Leonard Freed/MAGNUM \ VINTAGE PRINT © Leonard Freed-Magnum \ Photo 10. (2/30a) demonstrators with Communists flags in the streets of \ Guernica, in the background a statue of the city found Count \ Don Tello.
Inscribed in red ink on verso, BRC: g32
Inscribed in red ink on verso, BL: 932
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