About the book: Habsburg cult and coffee house literature, waltz rhythm and Schönberg, Opera Ball, Wiener Werkstätte and Wiener Schmäh, Art Nouveau, MUMOK and Albertina, Qualtinger and Jelinek, St. Stephen's Cathedral, Prater, Naschmarkt and Strudlhofstiege, the trivial, the epochal, and the bizarre – Vienna is full of stories and sights. This collection, with hundreds of photographs from the last 175 years, invites you on a stroll through the history and districts of the Austrian capital – from k.u.k. glory and the Fin de Siècle, through Cold War Vienna, to the modern metropolis.
Biography: Andreas J. Hirsch (1961, Vienna) is an author, curator, and artistic photographer. He has published books on Pablo Picasso, Tina Modotti, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and HR Giger and was curator of KunstHausWien from 2009–2014, where he curated exhibitions on Henri Cartier-Bresson, Linda McCartney, and HR Giger, among others.
Christian Brandstätter (1943–2024) founded Brandstätter Verlag in 1982 and published groundbreaking illustrated books on Vienna around 1900, the Wiener Werkstätte, and the history of Austrian photography.
Hans-Michael Koetzle (1953) lives in Munich and is the author of numerous works on the history and aesthetics of photography, including Die Zeitschrift twen, Photo Icons, Das Lexikon der Fotografen, and René Burri: Fotografien.
Pages: 532
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AUTHOR: Andreas J. Hirsch
Christian Brandstätter
Hans-Michael Koetzle
First published: 30/10/2019
Language of the book: Multilingual (English, French, German)
Edition: INT
ISBN: 978-3-8365-6726-8
Topics: Photography and Lifestyle, Cooking & Travel
Dimensions: 25.0 cm x 34.0 cm, Weight 4.47 kg
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