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The World in Focus
This exhibition has ended.
Travel and expedition photography from the mid-19th century on, with extensive series tracing power, mobility and how the camera captured the world.
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Around 1890, Anton Silberhuber photographed a group of tourists who had climbed onto the Sphinx's shoulders and leg for the picture. Visitors behave rather differently at Giza now.
There are 107 photographs in the Tietze Galleries, all from the Albertina's holdings. The chapters move from Francis Bedford's Egypt, shot while he travelled with European royals, to Indian temple complexes, Gustav Jägermayer's Alpine glaciers, Josef Löwy's 1878 roadworks and bridges in Bosnia, and the Yokohama studio Raimund von Stillfried opened in 1871. The best-known views, says artmagazine, are of Naples and Capri by Georg Sommer, a Frankfurt man who sold them as Giorgio. You finish in colour, with autochrome plates and a projection of several more.
artmagazine's critic thinks a show like this earns its place now that everyone needs ten minutes to dig one banal shot out of their camera roll. It closes on 26 October. It's included in the €20.90 Albertina ticket, under-19s are free, and the museum is open until 21:00 on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Look for
Tourists on the Sphinx
Look for Silberhuber's photo from around 1890 of tourists who clambered onto the Sphinx's shoulders and leg to pose for the camera.
Krämer on the hospice terrace
Johann Victor Krämer photographed himself on the terrace of the Austrian Pilgrims' Hospice in Jerusalem around 1900, then retouched the print.
The flower seller at the Ponte Vecchio
An early colour autochrome of a flower seller standing in front of Florence's Ponte Vecchio, from the amateur section that ends the show.
The railway bridge over the Dniester
Adolf Schoon von Corbitzthal's 1866/67 view of a new railway bridge crossing the Dniester near Halych, in today's Ukraine.
Jägermayer's glacier
The Crystal Water Glacier seen from the north-west in 1863, proof that the heavy early cameras were hauled up into the Alpine ice.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Nerding Out
With kids
Under-19s get into the Albertina free, and the show is part of the standard ticket.
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Image credits
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- AlbertinaC.Stadler/Bwag, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Elisabeth von SamsonowHeidi Horten Collection / Elisabeth von Samsonow
- TO SHOE OR NOT TO SHOE. Warhol and othersHeidi Horten Collection
- The Global Power of Love. A Journey Through the CenturiesÖsterreichische Nationalbibliothek
- Theatermuseum (Palais Lobkowitz)Gryffindor / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5
- State Hall of the Austrian National Library (Prunksaal)Mirej / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
- Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)Sonja Bachmayer / Jewish Museum Vienna, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0