Life in the streets of Vienna around 1900, as captured by the recently introduced snapshot, may be read as a narrative in a number of ways: Social, political and economic claims articulate themselves in everyday dealings—and not only where large gatherings of people may be observed, such as in markets or at the Prater (the traditional fun-fair in Vienna). A vanishing world, sentimentally evoked in picture postcards? An urban environment undergoing a process of transformation, and which calls forth resentments?
Street Life in Vienna.
Photographs from 1861 to 1913
Publikation
Michael PonstinglContributions to a History of Photography in Austria, vol. 2
100 pages
88 figs. in color and b/w
21,5 × 21 cm, Softcover with flaps
English
ISBN 978-3-85033-206-4
Brandstätter, Wien
2008
12,50 EUR Bestellen
Alle Publikationen
