Vienna Photographers Association
The Vienna Photographers Association was an organizational amalgamation of the Viennese companies Oscar Kramer , M. Frankenstein & Comp. , J. Löwy and György Klösz on the occasion of the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 .
Emergence
The general director of the Vienna World Exhibition, Wilhelm Freiherr von Schwarz-Senborn, wanted to have the construction phase in the world exhibition area and in particular the finished exhibition area documented with photographs. To this end, he awarded a license for photographic recordings and their distribution to a group of photographers. The “ Photographische Gesellschaft ” negotiated detailed conditions with Schwarz-Senborn, such as reserving dark rooms with water connections throughout the area, allowing photographers to enter the building before opening hours and allowing scaffolding to be assembled. The original license fee was also reduced from 30,000 guilders to 20,000 guilders.
The commissioned photographers Oscar Kramer, Michael Frankenstein, Josef Löwy and György Klösz founded the company "Wiener Photographen-Association" for this purpose. They also hired the photographers Max Jaffé (1845–1939), Gustav Jägermayer and Philipp Georg von der Lippe. Ernest Eleonor Pierre Lamy was used for stereo recordings and Johann Baptist Obernetter (1840–1887) for the collotype process.
Create
The photographic documentation was taken on June 8, 1872 and 13 pictures were taken in that month. Originally, images were to be taken every 14 days during the construction phase. These have been dated. A total of 64 photos were taken during the construction phase. Most of the photos were taken during the exhibition. In addition, the photographers received orders from the exhibitors to produce images for exhibition stands.
The recordings were made in the cabinet card , the Visit format and partly manufactured in stereo format. These were grouped together in various versions to create clip-in albums, leporellos or bound albums and offered for sale in a separate pavilion. In another pavilion, the glass plates were developed and further processed in wet collodion.
The photographers had assistants who carried camera equipment and chemicals around the area and kept them ready. There were also retouchers and bookbinders. Around 50 people were involved in the visual documentation. The entire image production comprised around 2,200 images.
In 1874 the pictures were published in the “General Catalog of Photographic Products of the Vienna Photographers Association for the 1873 World Exhibition”.
Since the financial success failed to materialize, the members separated in 1874 and divided the picture inventory among themselves. 250 of these photographs are now in the archive of the Technical Museum in Vienna.
The world exhibition in 1873 was the first major event in which snapshots of construction progress, architecture and terrain were taken in such a complete and detailed manner and at the same time represents valuable documentation for posterity.
Documentation of the construction work
Construction phase on March 7, 1873
Machine shop during construction, August 1872
The rotunda during construction
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b world exhibit. Vienna scene in 1873 . Publisher Technisches Museum Wien, p. 24ff, ISBN 3-902183-10-1
literature
- Exhibit world. Vienna scene in 1873 . Publisher Technisches Museum Wien, p. 24ff, ISBN 3-902183-10-1
- Jutta Pemsel: The Vienna World Exhibition of 1873 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne 1989, ISBN 3205052471