Lockdown: Vienna Nights in the Time of Corona
In lustrous, high-quality images, you rediscover the feeling of being out late at night on abandoned bi-ways, portraying the unique beauty of a Vienna most people don’t get to see. You travel through back-street lonely corners and atmospheric locations and rediscover places you thought you knew.
And threaded all through are essays that capture the essence of the moments and settings of each photograph, of mysterious encounters in a cemetery or confrontations with the police.DescriptionLockdown: Vienna Nights in the Time of Corona is a retrospective of Vienna’s first COVID-19 suspension in photographs and essays capturing the city in Spring 2020 in luminous black and white.
With photographs by Danny LoCascio, and texts by LoCascio and Metropole editor in chief Dardis McNamee, “Lockdown: Vienna Nights in the Time of Corona” is an elegant testimony to our altered world, to the eerie stillness, the moments of magic unfolding on Vienna’s streets during the first lockdown. Find images of loneliness in empty lanes, atmospheric locations, and well-known Viennese landmarks transformed.
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Lockdown: Vienna Nights in the Time of Corona
Lockdown: Vienna Nights in the Time of Corona is a retrospective of Vienna’s first COVID-19 lockdown in photographs and essays. True to form, the photographer captures the empty and quiet streets of Vienna in black and white in Spring 2020.
Firstly, the high quality images give the viewer the feeling of being out late at night during “lockdown”. However, it succeeds in portraying the unique beauty of Vienna — one that most people don’t get to see. It includes images of back-street lonely and atmospheric locations and well known Viennese landmarks. Moreover, the photobook is threaded with essays that capture the essence of the moment of each photograph. The reader is brought through mysterious encounters in a cemetery and confrontations with the police. |
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