Erich Lessing: The Pulse of Time?Capturing Social Change in Post-war Europe

Johannes Rambarter; Florian Knothe

ISBN 10: 9881902320 / ISBN 13: 9789881902320

Published by Hong Kong University Press, 2015

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Text in English and Chinese.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Erich Lessing: The Pulse of Time?Capturing Social Change in Post-war Europe
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9881902320
• ISBN 13: 9789881902320
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

The University Museum and Art Gallery collaborates with the Austrian Consulate for Hong Kong and Macau as well as the Erich Lessing Archive to present the photography of celebrated Magnum photographer Erich Lessing. This catalogue accompanies the exhibition. Erich Lessing The Pulse of Time includes documentary images from the pinnacle of Lessing's career in the 1950s and 1960s, which illustrate the journalist's ability to be working in the right place at the right time. Lessing reported on many of the most significant political event in post-war Europe and his, now historical, photographs record social and economic change in ever developing societies in both Eastern and Western Europe.

About the Author

Florian Knothe is director of the University Museum and Art Gallery at the University of Hong Kong, where he is also an honorary associate professor in the School of Humanities.