Frankfurt went West - Mickey Bohnacker: Fotografien 1945-1965
In the organizer's words:
80 years after the end of the war, we are presenting the estate of the press and sensational photographer Mickey Bohnacker, whose pictures show numerous facets of the Americanization of Frankfurt at close range.
Bohnacker depicted the path that led from political uncertainty to democratic parliamentarism, from West Germany's isolation in Europe to its integration into a Western alliance, from a landscape of ruins to a modern metropolis, from hardship and poverty to prosperity for many. The photographs provide insights - both everyday and humorous - into politics, (re-)democratization, the development of the city, the economy, culture and transport in the first two decades after the Second World War and bring the fascination of the American way of life to life.
The photographs come from Bohnacker's photographic estate, which was handed over to the Institute in 2016/17 and catalogued by Tobias Picard. Bohnacker was already working for American army newspapers as a young man and accompanied General Dwight D. Eisenhower, among others.
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