Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: SPRANG, A. von
Event Date: 1950
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.003913

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Closeup of Iron Curtain; handwritten: 12//11//50; handwritten: 1950; handwritten: 6; handwritten: Austrian-Czech border; handwritten: 5 [circled]; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten: 5 [circled]; stamped: Please credit: A. von Sprang / abc press / Amsterdam – postbox 694 / tel: 35798 Telegr. Abc press; typed label: 6.) It is a very appropriate film indeed, which is being shown / in the only cinema of Gmuend: “Der Geheimpolizist” (The secret / policeman). But a couple hundred yards further on it isn’t / a picture anymore, but hard reality. It is the secret police, / which has been charged with the guarding of the frontier with / Austria.

Tagasauris Keywords: Advertising; Austria; Day; Nobody; Outdoors; Photograph; Poster; Propaganda; Shadow box; Store Sign
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AUSTRIA / FRONTIER
Retouching: N