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Berlin in the Spotlight: the Blockade of 1948/1949 The Photojournalist Henry Ries
June 2008 will see the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Airlift. On this occasion the German Historical Museum shows an exhibition of photographs by the highly acclaimed Henry Ries whose legacy was acquired in 2007. With his photographs the German-born American was able to mediate an image of what was happening in Berlin and Europe in the years of 1946 through 1951 to a rather distant but alert audience in the U.S. Henry Ries was born in Berlin in 1917. In 1937 the Jewish-born Ries fled Germany for New York. With the US entering the war in 1941 Ries voluntarily joined the Army Forces and returned to Europe as a soldier on his own behalf. He soon left the Army to first work as a photojournalist for the OMGUS Observer and then for the NY Times in Europe. He spent his decisive years in Berlin. In ...
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June 2008 will see the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Airlift.
On this occasion the German Historical Museum shows an exhibition of photographs by the highly acclaimed Henry Ries whose legacy was acquired in 2007. With his photographs the German-born American was able to mediate an image of what was happening in Berlin and Europe in the years of 1946 through 1951 to a rather distant but alert audience in the U.S.
Henry Ries was born in Berlin in 1917. In 1937 the Jewish-born Ries fled Germany for New York. With the US entering the war in 1941 Ries voluntarily joined the Army Forces and returned to Europe as a soldier on his own behalf. He soon left the Army to first work as a photojournalist for the OMGUS Observer and then for the NY Times in Europe. He spent his decisive years in Berlin. In ...