Tag: #reportage
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Hidden Natural Histories
It is quite special to get a behind-the-scenes view at a museum. Now in Vienna, one can do so from the comfort of one´s cinema chair: Archiv der Zukunft is a new film by Joerg Burger that offers insights into the collections and work of Vienna´s Natural History Museum, the NHM Wien. Last week I…
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The brand-new Pratermuseum
I had the pleasure of attending a preview into Vienna´s brand new Prater museum, which opened last week The museum is one of the several Wienmuseum (Vienna Museum) locations. The old location at the Planetarium has been closed for a couple of years, while construction of a new modern venue and restoration works of some…
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Floral visions
“The Secret Service of Flowers” – a nice pun, is the title of the new photography exhibition at Galerie Anzenberger in Vienna´s former Anker bread factory. It opened last week, and I went to the opening night. The Gallery currently offers a sort of refuge from the urban every day, a place to figuratively breathe…
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Sternfeld’s America: A Palette of Colour and Narrative
I had the privilege of attending an artist talk with Joel Sternfeld at the Albertina Museum, which is currently showing a major exhibition of his series “American Prospects”. Listening to Sternfeld was an enlightening opportunity to gain insights into his creative process and the inspirations behind his captivating large format work. It was a remarkable…
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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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Fridays for Future
Time for a pro-nature conservation rant (after all, my VienNature Culturegram has the word “nature” in it, and I´ve been neglecting that part a bit). “Species have always gone extinct”. “The earth´s climate has changed many times before”. This and other unscientific global warming and climate change myths are commonly spouted by the uninformed and…
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