Start price: €800
Estimate: € 1.200–1.600
English:
Gelatin silver print, printed in 2003 on double-weight semi-matte paper 30,6 x 40,4 cm, in very good condition. Signed and annotated "12.11.03" in black felt-tip pen in the lower image at right.
During the Soviet blockade of Berlin in 1948/49, American transport planes brought supplies to West Berlin by airlift, often with four-engined Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircrafts, as in this felicitous photograph. When aeroplane crews began dropping sweets and raisins for the waiting children on their own initiative shortly before landing and the actual distribution, they were known as "raisin bombers".
Deutsch:
Silbergelatineabzug, geprintet 2003 auf kartonstarkem, halbmattem Papier 30,6 x 40,4 cm, in sehr gutem Zustand. Im Bild unten rechts vom Fotografen mit schwarzem Filzstift signiert und Vermerk des Printdatums "12.11.03".
Während der sowjetischen Berlin-Blockade 1948/49 brachten amerikanische Transportflugzeuge Nachschub per Luftbrücke nach West-Berlin, häufig mit viermotorigen Maschinen vom Typ Douglas C-54 Skymaster, wie in dieser gelungenen Aufnahme. Als Flugzeugbesatzungen in Eigeninitiative damit begannen, kurz vor der Landung und der eigentlichen Verteilung, Süßigkeiten und Rosinen für die wartenden Kindern abzuwerfen, nannte man diese "Rosinenbomber".
Size: 29,3 x 33,6 cm
Auction: OSTLICHT PHOTO AUCTION SPRING 2024, 5th Jun, 2024
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