A photo by Auguste Léon taken on 15 Oktober 1912 in Sarajevo (c) SZ, 2013
Archive for photography
Sarajevo, before the storm of history
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria-Hungary, bakery, Bosnia-Herzegovina, hsitory, photography, Sarajevo on 1 January 2014 by delclem“… with all means at its disposal”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria-Hungary, First World War, history, photography on 31 December 2013 by delclem
“In 2014, most European countries will commemorate the start of the First World War 100 years ago. Among the numerous publications to appear to date is a book from Carl Gerold’s Publishers, which contains numerous hitherto unpublished photographs.” >text & album (c) wieninternational.at 2013
The Baltic states
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Baltics, Estonia, latvia, Lithuania, photography, Soviet Union on 27 November 2013 by delclem
in Soviet times, seen through the lens of local photographers.
>slideshow (c) livejournal.com 2013
Sleeping sunbathers in Lithuania
Posted in Uncategorized with tags beach, beauty, comfort zone, Lithuania, photography, Tadao Cern on 26 November 2013 by delclem
“Photographer Tadao Cern spent a weekend photographing people as they slept on a public beach in Lithuania. The art project, entitled Comfort Zone, aims to explore how different surroundings can affect people’s behaviour and inhibitions.” >more (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
Photographer & Soviet spy with a conscience
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Communism, Edith Tudor-Hart, espionage, exhibition, Greta-Britain, London, photography, Soviet Union, Vienna on 3 October 2013 by delclem
“When Edith Tudor-Hart wasn’t working as a Soviet agent, she was taking lovingly realistic portraits of London’s workers and street children. Now, for the first time, a retrospective is celebrating her double life.” >full text (c) THE TELEGRAPH, 2013
Ludwig Wittgenstein & ‘Fuzzy’ Photography
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Great Britain, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, photography, University of Cambridge on 11 September 2013 by delclem
“For the unsentimentally cerebral Wittgenstein, a photograph is not a memorial, but a ‘probability’. The philosopher’s archive at the University of Cambridge includes the photograph above, a true ‘probability’ in that it does not represent any one person but is a composite image of his face and the faces of his three sisters, made in collaboration with the ‘founding father of eugenics,’ Francis Galton.” (Well, I don’t buy the latter, since Galton dies in 1911…) >full text (c) OPEN CULTURE, 2013
Heart Break Hotels in Europe
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Belgium, Germany, hotels, Italy, Netherlands, photography, Slovakia, what's in a name? on 10 January 2013 by delclem
“What do you dream of when you stay at Hotel Kummer (German for ‘heartache’)? Who do you meet at Hotel Verloren (‘lost’)? And does breakfast at the B&B Trauer (‘grief’) leave a special taste in your mouth? Artist Conny Habbel and author Franz Adrian Wenzl went to see the most desperate hotels in Europe.” >Text & photos (album) (c) wieninternational.at 2012
“Between then and now”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bavarian Forest, Evi Lemberger, Germany, photography on 8 December 2012 by delclem
Between then and now is a documentary project by Evi Lemberger about people and places from a vanishing world. It” is situated in the Bavarian Forest, which is characterized by its rural structure and which is undergoing massive shifts from a traditional to a modern society. Result is the loss of an old life, along with its values and traditions. Another result is a necessity of leaving those behind and starting something new. Thereby those places and people are left behind.” >more (photos & text)
“My weekend at the ‘Hague Hilton’”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags ICTY, International Criminal Court, Netherlands, photography, prison, The Hague, war crimes, yugoslavia on 28 January 2012 by delclem
“As I entered, the first journalist ever allowed to report from inside, I had butterflies in my stomach. For I am a prisoner of my past. Some of the people detained here were accused of crimes against members of my family. We lived through the siege of Sarajevo.”
Photographer’s blog (c) REUTERS by Damir Sagolj who took pictures in the war crimes unit of the prison in The Hague.
Images of an era
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, exhibition, photography, postwar on 30 December 2011 by delclem
Until the end of January everyone has a chance to immerse themselves in the world of Austrian photography after 1945 > MORE
(c) wieninternational.t, 2011
delirium clemens 