Michael Friedel #2 : The Beginnings 1952-1960

Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brasilia, at his home in Rio, 1958 © Michael Friedel

Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brasilia, at his home in Rio, 1958 © Michael Friedel

Successful flirt, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1958 © Michael Friedel

Elvis Presley rehearsing for the Ed Sullivan Show, New York, USA, 1956 © Michael Friedel

Elvis Presley on his first Ed Sullivan Show demonstrating the life-saving anti-polio vaccination, New York, USA, 1956 © Michael Friedel

All-age class in one room, primary school, Freyung, Lower Bavaria, Germany, 1957 © Michael Friedel

Rock around the clock, students on an excursion, Wolfratshausen train station, Upper Bavaria, Germany, 1955 © Michael Friedel

Italian guest-workers arriving at Munich’s central station, Germany, 1953 © Michael Friedel

Communist party office, Trastevere, Rome, Italy, 1954 © Michael Friedel

Sophia Loren, filming “La Bella Mugnaia” (The Miller’s Beautiful Wife), Southern Italy, 1955 © Michael Friedel

Trastevere, Rome’s old quarter, Italy, 1953 © Michael Friedel