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YUGOSLAVIA 1926

In the mid-1920s the prominent German photographer Kurt Hielscher was invited by the government in Belgrade to travel to Yugoslavia and create a book with images of the state, founded only a few years earlier. Kurt Hielscher had already published similar and very successful books about Italy, Spain and Germany, so he took up the invitation with enthusiasm.

The journey - from the Alps to Novo Mesto towards Bulgaria - produced 1200 photographs, from which he chose 191. In Hielscher's words, those were the few "which would try to show the attractive, diverse character of the landscape, the architecture, and way of life of the Yugoslavs... I didn't want to create a collection of postcards".

The result is a stunning and often moving collection, published in a book in 1926 in Berlin by Ernst Wassmuth AG.

Please, respect the author's original work, do not "colorize" these photo plates. It's an act of vandalism.

village house in Krašnja

Otočec castle on the Krka river

Šibenik

Split

Črešnjevac

Girls from Busovača

Počitelj on the Neretva

Mostar

Sarajevo market

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Lakota Nation vs. United States (Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli, 2022)

In '55, the Ford Motor Company, failing to divine a name for their new car, requested the help of prize-winning poet Marianne Moore. The resulting flurry of names, while all rejected, make for amazing motor-carriage titles.

The car, eventually, was christened 'Edsel' - it then flopped, and became a symbol of economic failure. Perhaps, while unsuccessful with Ford, Moore's names might have felt more at home with Coupris. A selection:

A woman strolls the beach at Nazaré, Portugal, 1985.

Photo by Bruno Barbey

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Abandoned Marxer Laboratory, by Alberto Galardi (1964).

Loranzè, Italy.

© Roberto Conte (2015-2021)

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Vietnamese architects and historians consider the years from 1940 to 1975 the golden age of Vietnamese modernism. In that period, major modernist public buildings such as hospitals and hotels were designed and constructed.

- Mel Schenck via Saigoneer, "How Vietnam Created Its Own Brand of Modernist Architecture"

Robert McCall, 1975

The Serenity House, Lake Lucerne, Switzerland,

Courtesy: Fatemeh Abedi