ARRESTING TIME/ ERICH LESSING, REPORTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY, 1948

Erich Lessing is a legend in photography. Born in 1923 in Vienna, he became a photo-reporter for Associated Press in 1947, and in 19 51 he became one of the earliest members of the legendary Magnum photo cooperative. His remarkable 1950s images documenting postWor ld War Europe, and particularly his pictures of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, garnered worldwide admiration. Lessings works always revolve around the human condition at the moment when power and powerlessness come face to face, when the joy of living is suddenly overcloud...[Read more]