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.2005.003914

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Closeup of Iron Curtain; handwritten: 12//11; handwritten: 4; handwritten: 1950; 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: 4.) Exactly on the border between Austria and Czechoslovakia / stands the café of Franz Swoboda: the name, ironically enough, / means “freedom” in Czech. But “Mr. Freedom,” as he has been / nicknamed in Gmund, prefers to be on this side of the frontier.

Tagasauris Keywords: 1 person; Austria; Business; Day; Desk; Face; Glasses; Indoors; Key; Male; Person; Restaurant; Suit; Table Lamp; Three quarter length
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AUSTRIA / FRONTIER
Retouching: N