ERICH LESSING (1923–2018) Lot n° 46

ERICH LESSING (1923-2018) | Insurgent recites Petöfi while propaganda is burned, Budapest 1956 Image Size: 29,6 x 19,3 cm English: Vintage silver print on double-weight semi-matte Agfa paper, in very good condition. Photographer's "Magnum" copyright stamp, handwritten negative no. "56-9-15/16-17" in ink and "56-9-15/11A" in pencil, annotated "Hungarians burning propaganda material" and several numbers in pencil on the reverse. LITERATURE Hungary 1956. told in pictures by Erich Lessing and texts by Michael Gehler, Innsbruck 2015, p. 104f. "Posters and books are burned in front of the Soviet bookshop on Váci Street. In the destroyed display, an enthusiastic insurgent recites Sandor Petöfi's freedom poems." (Caption in the cited literature) German: Vintage silver gelatin print on semi-matte "double weight" Agfa paper, in very good condition. "Magnum" photographer's stamp on reverse, handwritten negative number in ink "56-9-15/16-17" and in pencil "56-9-15/11A", inscribed "Hungarians burning propaganda material" and numbered several times. LITERATURE Hungary 1956. told in pictures by Erich Lessing and texts by Michael Gehler, Innsbruck 2015, pp. 104f. "Posters and books are burned in front of the Soviet bookstore on Váci Street. In the destroyed display, an enthusiastic insurgent recites Sandor Petöfi's freedom poems." (caption in the cited literature)