East Berlin Brandenburg Gate View Cold War Street Ruins 1960s 35mm Film Slide For Sale
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East Berlin Brandenburg Gate View Cold War Street Ruins 1960s 35mm Film Slide: $23.88
This original 35mm color slide was taken from the East Berlin side looking toward the Brandenburg Gate, and the photographer\'s own handwriting on the mount reads From E. Berlin B-2 Brandenburg Gate. The gate sits low on the horizon under a hazy lavender sky while the foreground tells the real story of the divided city: an open, war scarred expanse of broken ground, a ruined building shell rising at the left edge, a tall street lamp, striped traffic barriers and a pair of rounded postwar sedans parked on the empty pavement. It is a quiet, almost desolate view of a place that sat at the center of the Cold War, captured by an ordinary traveler rather than a news agency. A strong piece for collectors of Berlin history, German travel photography and authentic mid century transparencies.
