ERICH LESSING: ANDERSWO/ELSWHERE the pictures challenge the viewer

the pictures challenge the viewer with their ambiguity

“When I got the idea for the school

It was 1981

first published in 2000

they become sculptures of the common man and make us think about how and why people build

ERICH LESSING: ANDERSWO/ELSWHERE the pictures challenge the viewerIn the course of his career, Erich Lessing covered many significant political and social events. His photographs illustrate the atmosphere of post war Europe, such as Allied occupation in Vienna, reconstruction in war damaged Germany, life under communist rule in Eastern Europe, several political summit conferences, Charles de Gaulles visit to Algeria in 1958 and the dramatic events of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. "I never thought of myself as