Erich Lessing, a self-taught photojournalist who fled the Nazi annexation of Austria as a teenager in 1939 but returned after World War II to document Europe’s political and cultural rebirth, died on ...

Erich Lessing (Austria, b. 1923) is one of the great and influential photographers, being present at crucial times and places in post-war Europe. His monumental oeuvre spans more than sixty years and ...

Lessing, a photojournalist affiliated with Magnum, spent the Second World War in British Palestine before returning to Europe, in 1947, where his work ran the gamut from smiling candids of beachgoers ...

Outside of a museum setting, one seldom encounters a survey of photography as star-studded as “Vintage Variety,” on view at Stephen Daiter Gallery in River North.