The Riesenrad through time

The *Riesenrad* after the II World War. Prater Park in ruins, Vienna, January 1946 (Photo by AFP) | src getty images

**Yoichi Okamoto ~** Das Wiener Riesenrad, Wien, 1945 | Giant ferris wheel, Prater park, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, 1945 | src ÖNB ~ Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

The Big Wheel at Prater Funfair, Vienna, July 1967 (Photo © Hulton Archive) | src getty images

The famous Ferris wheel at the Prater, Vienna’s principal public park, circa 1955 | src getty images

The Wiener Riesenrad, Vienna, ca. 1935. The Riesenrad in the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt | src getty images

Wurstelprater amusement park, Vienna, 1920s. Wiener Prater park with ferris wheel | src getty images

Prater park. In the background the Riesenrad. Photography by M. Manenizza, Vienna, ca. 1900 [Auf dem Weg in den Wiener Wurstelprater, im Hintergrund das Riesenrad. Photographie von M. Manenizza; um 1900] | src getty images

W. Eugene Smith ::

Marine Demolition Team Blasting out a Cave on Hill 382, Iwo Jima, March 1945 / via

travelsinhyperreality / original src: ICP

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Yevgeni Khaldei (Evgeny Khaldey) :: Budapest, 1940′s, gelatin silver, print from the 1980′s, the reverse side signed in pencil, numbered 70, photographer’s copyright stamp.

source: dorotheum.com

Yevgeni Khaldei (Evgeny Khaldey) ::

Raising the Soviet Flag over the Reichstag [Raising the Hammer and Sickle over the Reichstag], 1945. Gelatin silver print. / sources: nailya alexander gallery and lumiere gallery

Werner Bischof :: A man walks through the destroyed city looking for food, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 1945

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Fred Morley :: The Milkman, October 10th 1940 (fox Photos) / src: Iconic Photos

“Morley, working for Fox Photos, knew that if he took the pictures of the destroyed homes, his photos would not be published. A lot of his earlier work had been censored. In front of a back drop of firefighters struggling to contain a fire, he had an idea. He borrowed the coat and milk carrier from a milkman and asked his assistant to walk across the bombed moonscape. London carries on, the stage photo proclaimed, and the censor waved the picture through.”

Keep Calm and Carry On, proclaimed the poster which was never used. Instead, various photos taken during the war, of ordinary people ‘carrying on’ conveyed the same message. [Quoted from source]