Modern Munich
Photograph

Erich Lessing

Maker
Austrian, 1923–2018

Modern Munich

From New Wealth in the Old World


1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 3/16 × 9 3/8 in. (15.7 × 23.8 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0207
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Europe's Wealth) 3/62 22) MODERN MUNICH tackles its traffic problem \ by means of a central control center where one man \ watches up to twenty crucial points via televised \ pictures. He then manipulates traffic lights to \ ease a jam, or dispatches control cars to cope with blocked vehicles. Vienna also plans such a system. \ Credit: Erich Lessing © 1962 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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