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ELLIOTT ERWITT (* 1928) Nikita Khrushchev besucht eine Farm in der Nähe von Washington / visits a farm in the vicinity of Washington, 1959

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Product number: AI_10_29890
Starting Price €1,400
Estimate € 2.000 – 2.400
serial number : 22,2 x 29,3
ELLIOTT ERWITT (* 1928) Nikita Khrushchev besucht eine Farm in der Nähe von Washington / visits a farm in the vicinity of Washington, 1959

Vintage silver print 22,2 x 29,3 cm (8.7 x 11.5 in) Photographer's agency stamp, image no. stamp and various notations in ink and pencil on the reverse Die Aufnahme entstand während Khrushchevs zwölftägiger USA-Reise im September 1959. Kurz nach seiner Ankunft besuchte er mit dem Agrarminister Ezra Taft Benson (links im Bild) eine Farm in Maryland. Lachend, einen Truthahn haltend, beklagte er sich über das viel zu magere Tier. Es war seine erste Reise in die USA und man hoffte auf eine positive Wendung im Kalten Krieg. Ein paar Monate vorher besuchte Nixon die Amerikanische Nationalausstellung in Moskau, hier entstand auch Erwitts bekannte Aufnahme ‘Kitchen Debate’. The picture was taken during Khrushchev's trip to the United States in September 1959. Shortly after his arrival he visited together with the Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson (left in the image) a farm in Maryland. He grabbed a turkey and complained about the way too lean animal. It was his first visit in the United States, the hope to achieve a turning point in the Cold War was high. A few months before Erwitt’s well known image 'Kitchen Debate' was made, when Nixon was in Moscow to visit the American National Exhibition.

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