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Your search for "In this colection of more than 100 photographs taken over the last 50 years, Lessing's work appears sometimes ironic, sometimes melancholy but always warm. The result is a poignant record of history, whatever it is made of: political events (the postwar-period, the Hungarian revolution of 1956, summit meetings etc.), their consequences (refugees, religious institutions under communism etc.), artistic creations and their creators etc. Hence the final 'walk through history' with photographs of sceneries and objects going back to antiquity. Such a thematic order allows a dual vision of human life, in which poverty, despair and fear are not to be separated from a celebration of love and a strong sense of vitality. 'That derives from a humanistic upbringing and my basic attitude. (...) I take mankind seriously in all its aspirations and desires and in whatever arises therefrom in religious, spiritual, artistic and political aspects.(...) I wish to show history and to recount stories.' (E..." had no results.

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