Shouting Across the Divide

WEST BERLIN—Westerners watch across the wall while it is still low

enough to see over, 1961.

WEST BERLIN—West Berliners making signs to friends and relatives on the other

side of the Berlin Wall, 1961.

WEST BERLIN—During the construction of the Berlin Wall, 1962.

WEST BERLIN—The Berlin Wall, 1962.

BERLIN—Children playing at the Berlin Wall, 1962.

ISRAEL—A hill (they call it the Hill of Shouts) is near the Druze village of Majdal Shams at the foot of Mount Hermon, from which Druze families converse with relatives living across the border in Syria by means of shouting, hand waving, and megaphones. After the capture of the Golan Heights by Israel in the Six-Day War, a number of Druze villages remained in the area controlled by the Israelis. Most

of these villagers have relatives on the Syrian side of the border, 1975.

ISRAEL—In the Golan Heights, Druze women at the border fence near Majdal Shams communicate with relatives on the Syrian side, 1975.

© Micha Bar Am / Magnum Photos

QALQILYA, West Bank—The view from a girls’ primary school near the Separation Wall of Qalqilya. On the other side, Israelis from the Israeli peace

movement Gush Shalom, October 2002.© Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Photos

GUSH KATIF, Gaza Strip—Protesters who have barricaded themselves in the homes of settlers yell at soldiers who have come to

evict them, 2005© Christopher Anderson / Magnum Photos

ABU DIS, West Bank—The separation wall photographed from above. Cut off from Israel and often from the rest of the West Bank, Palestinians will lose half

of their land, plus access to employment, schools, shopping, and hospitals. Many will find themselves living in walled-in cantons, 2003.

© Larry Towell / Magnum Photos

S’ARAGO, Spain—Elizabeth Taylor ignores the begging of beach urchins in a scene from Suddenly, Last Summer, in which she co-starred with Katharine

Hepburn and Montgomery Clift, 1959.© Burt Glinn / Magnum Photos

PLAYA DE TIJUANA, Mexico—At the border fence, 1995.

ROMANIA—The borderline with Bulgaria, 1990.© Nikos Economopoulos / Magnum Photos

CHAD—In the southern Sahara. Greetings from a child on the other side of the wall, 1985.

© Chris Steele-Perkins / Magnum Photos

BETHLEHEM—An Israeli-built “security” wall passes by Aida refugee camp, October 2005.