Resistance to Soviet Threats

Resistance to Soviet Threats

Photograph

René Burri

Maker
Swiss, 1933–2014

Resistance to Soviet Threats

Berlin – Facing East


1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 5/16 × 6 7/16 in. (23.7 × 16.4 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0057
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on label applied to verso, BC: 9/61 16) RESISTANCE TO THREATS, this British Tommy faces \ Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, the first border crossing to be closed \ down by the East Germans, when the Berlin crisis became acute on \ August 12th. \ Credit: Rene Burri © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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