Mar 11, 2021 - Sale 2561

Sale 2561 - Lot 399

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(GERMANY--COLD WAR)
Approximately 65 press photographs depicting the building of the Berlin Wall and the following decade of the split between East and West Berlin.


This group of photographs depicts the building of the Berlin Wall's structure in 1961 and the events of the following decade, including pedestrians and cars crossing the border checkpoints, separated families, soldiers patrolling, and guard towers. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 5x7 inches (12.7x17.8 cm.), a few slightly larger, a few the reverse, each with a printed or typed caption in German and press hand stamp, and almost all with the printed date, on verso. 1960s