I’m not sure how I missed The Vulgar – Fashion Redefined in London, but as luck would have it, it’s moved to the Winterpalais in Vienna. Curated by Judith Clark, the exhibition takes ‘a new look at “high fashion”’ based…
DelMay 25, 2017
So a few of us have been waltzing around Vienna. We started with the launch of Wiener Blut and then had the intention of doing the alternative sight-seeing tour, led by yours truly. However, as JET put it so succinctly,…
DelMarch 22, 2017
On the recommendation of wpnewington, I spent a happy hour watching Rick Stein’s long weekend in Vienna (available here on BBC iPlayer). Arriving at Schwechat airport, Stein points out the Figlmüller sign for Wienerschnitzel and says how much he’s looking…
DelJanuary 8, 2017
A new year … if the old adage ‘start as you mean to go on’ is true, then 2017 is going to be one of laziness and indecision. But it is Sunday. And we did manage to get up in…
DelJanuary 1, 2017
The prompt for today’s blog has been provided by Jonathan Taylor. After having seen a TV advert, Jonathan posed a question on Facebook: ‘What on earth are curated Christmas Trees?’ Now I would have thought nothing further about this, had a…
DelNovember 26, 2016
The plot, the pen and I are now in Vienna getting ready for Sunday’s kleine Ausstellung (more on that tomorrow) and the grand finale to the novel. Last time I was in Vienna, the European Month of Photography was just…
DelNovember 24, 2016
The artist's impression, that I found on-line, is rather more utopian than the reality ... although it might just be that my visit coincided with another grey, lightless day. And given it was built in the fifties, I'm guessing that…
DelMarch 13, 2016
Getting into practice for the Landscape Narrative in April. This particular landscape has a somewhat pithy narrative.
DelMarch 11, 2016
This is just a random selection of some of of my favourite Vienna stuff - one day this year, I'll get it sorted into different categories … maybe ...
DelMay 28, 2015
One of my favourite books - and probably the first grown-up photography book I had - is Harry Weber's Das Wien Projeckt. Here is my homage to the great, late HW.
DelMay 26, 2015