[Nuremberg Trial] D'Addario, Ray. (1920–2011)
Signed Nuremberg Trial Photograph with Typed Letter Signed
Chilling large photograph of the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials, seated in two rows and guarded by American military police. Signed on the mount at the lower right by photographer Ray D'Addario. Together with a typed letter signed from D'Addario (1 p., November 14, 1990), sending a typed list of the defendants in seated order (also included.) Visible in the front row are (left to right): Hermann Goering, Rudolph Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walter Funk, Hjalmar Schacht; and in the back row (left to right): Karl Doenitz, Erich Rader, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Syess-Inquart, Albert Speer, Constantin von Neurath, and Hans Fritzsche.14 x 11 inches (35.5 x 28 cm), mounted on a slightly larger cardboard mount with some light water damage. Photograph in fine condition.
Raymond "Ray" D'Addario was an American photographer, known especially for his images of the Nazi leaders during the Nuremberg trials. As an Army photographer during World War II, he was selected to cover the Nuremberg trials along with other members of the military imaging service team. The thousands of images he took, both in black and white and color, were those published in all international press coverage of the 21 defendants. Although his work was best known for his images of the defendant's bench, he also took singular images of the prosecutors, some silent motion pictures of the court itself, and the city of Nuremberg, devastated by the allied bombings in the war. D'Addario was later called again to document other trials of the war crimes of more than 200 Nazis. (17622)
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