The Frankfurter Allgemeine discovers photography and I discover Malenkov

By wpcomimportuser1 | October 4, 2007 | +

In the clearest sign yet that the world is about to come to an end, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung–the grayest newspaper I know of on this planet–is going to start running color photos on the front page every day starting Friday. (“Inviting, fresh, clear,” the paper claims of its new look.)

The FAZ did run front-page photos in the past on especially big news days. There’s a collection of some old front pages here, and it’s fascinating to see what merited a photo: 9/11 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, of course, but also the death of Pope John Paul, the establishment of diplomatic relations between Bonn and Moskow in 1955, the Four Power Conference in Berlin in 1954, and my personal favorite, the Fall of Malenkov. I actually hadn’t known that some guy named Malenkov had briefly been in charge of the Soviet Union between Stalin and Kruschev. Clearly, I don’t read the Frankfurter Allgemeine regularly enough.

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http://felixsalmon.com Felix

The Sunday version of the newspaper actually recently won a prize as the best-designed newspaper of the year, and has long had a pioneering use of photography and illustration. I look forward to seeing what the new daily FAZ looks like.
GLD

Justin
Did you find the “Fall of Malenkov” simply searching for Malenkov or did you trace something in FAZ? The site you reference is facinating from a history standpoint and the need for all of us to be Trotskyites for the world to work.
Justin Fox

It’s in the collection of FAZ front pages I refer to. The headline in the actual paper says “Marshal Bulganin takes over from Malenkov.”
http://nanpotnan.blogspot.com wood turtle

That was a very interesting link on signs of the end of the world.