Walter Mittelholzer Revisited: From the Walter Mittelholzer Photo Archive (Pictorial Worlds. Photographs from the ETH-Bibliothek’s Image Archive)
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (647 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3858815438 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-26 |
| Language | : | English, German |
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Together, the photographs document Mittelholzer’s extensive travels, including trips to what is today Iran, Ethiopia, and the Svalbard Islands of northern Norway, as well as his 1926–7 trip to Africa on the seaplane Switzerland that made Mittelholzer a household name both in aviation and photography. Today, the Mittelholzer archive is part of the vast image archive at the ETH-Bibliothek, the main library at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich. . Rounding out the book is an essay that revisits Mittelholzer’s activities from a contemporary perspective, with a focus on the issue of colonialism and his patronizing view of Africa and its peoples and cultures. Mittelholzer also participated in ex
. About the AuthorKaspar Surber is a historian and an editor at the Swiss weekly WOZ Die Wochenzeitung. Michael Gasser is head of the archives and Nicole Graf is head of the image archive at ETH-Bibliothek, the main library of ETH Zurich
. Kaspar Surber is a historian and an editor at the Swiss weekly WOZ Die Wochenzeitung. Michael Gasser is head of the archives and Nicole Graf is head of the image archive at ETH-Bibliothek, the main library of ETH Zurich