Category: #architecture
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Der Markt der Meister
Wie der Kunstmarkt die Kunstgeschichte formte (Scroll down for the English text.) Mittwoch, später Nachmittag im Gartenpalais Liechtenstein. Barocke Stuckdecken, schwere Türen, diese stille aristokratische Ruhe, die die Wier Palais so an sich haben. Und mitten in diesem Ambiente eine Ausstellung über etwas, das Museen lange lieber verschwiegen haben: Geld. Die Ausstellung „Noble Begierden“ der…
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Fast greifbar
Two Views on Plants im NHM (Scroll down for the English text.) Pflanzenfotografie? Klingt vielleicht nach Kalenderidylle – auch wenn ich selbst ein Fan bin. Doch “Two Views on Plants“ von Sebastian Cramer im Naturhistorischen Museum Wien sprengt genau dieses Bild. Das hier ist botanische Fotografie für Skeptiker. Wie muss ein Bild aussehen, um in…
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Zwischen Material, Mensch und Haltung
Anupama Kundoo im AzW (Scroll down for the English text.) Vor zwei Tagen war ich mit IGersAustria.at im Architekturzentrum Wien eingeladen. Auf dem Programm stand die Ausstellung „Reichtum statt Kapital“ der Architektin Anupama Kundoo. Eine Ausstellung, die nicht laut sein muss, um präsent zu bleiben. Schon beim Eintreten wird klar: Hier geht es nicht um…
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Back to analogue – Part 7: testing my “new” Exakta Varex IIb
Back when my analogue passion was reignited, for the Seven Sisters exhibition I was originally lent an Exakta Varex V. After bringing it to Hamburg and very carefully exposing a film with it (or so I thought) I was totally frustrated to find out on return that the film had not been properly transported and…
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Back to analogue – Part 6: on tour with the Contax IIIa
This was my most “should I really?” purchase when I got the “back to film” bug: A Contax IIIa with a Zeiss Sonnar 1:1.5 50mm lens and leather case, all in near pristine condition. I had spotted it on Ebay after buying “Das Contax Buch”, a really old and really wonderful book, from which incidentally…
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Back to analogue – Part 5: Vienna Pride with the Praktica B200
When I was working on my portrait project for the “17 Sisters” analogue exhibition at Fine Art Galerie Traismauer with Reinhard Prenn´s Yashica Electro 35, the analogue bug got me and I went a little bit crazy and began accumulating a whole bunch of old cameras (bought cheaply on a used goods platform or inherited)…
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Back to analogue – Part 4: Streets of Linz on Kodak Ektar 100
I may have found a film that works for me. Although it remains to be seen whether it worked out for the indoor shots I took the other day. I have not quite finished that roll. But I did take a complete roll of 36 during my photo school weekend (I am currently studying for…
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Back to analogue – Part 3: Vienna views on Kodak Ultramax 400
My heart starts beating faster these days when the download link with scans of my latest analogue photos arrives from the photo lab. Will it have worked out? Getting a transfer is in itself a good sign – at least now I know that the film was transported and exposed! This time I tried out…
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Stones that speak
On Friday I showed you bits of my neighbourhood, which was created during the days of working class housing- and food shortages that followed World War I and the breakup of the Habsburg Empire. But of course this problem extended to all of Vienna, and the cooperative garden settlements that were built in the 1920s…
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Ping Pong for photographers
One of several cultural activities I meant to write about while the exhibition is still open was a visit to the OstLicht Gallery with Instagramers Vienna, an invitation by Female Photographers Vienna. This was supposed to be on until 28 March, but of course COVID-19 also closed down this space, although from the website I…
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