Pwt 21 2016 moscow year zero

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PWT 21-2016 CONTENTS :

Images of a rarely seen Ghost City, from the documentation of Prof Bernhard Brandt IIISixteen vintage prints 1-16

WEEKLY TRANSMISSION N°21 THURSDAY 26 MAY 2016

CHANGING PLACES: MOSCOW YEAR ZERO

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N°21 : Moscow Year Zero

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Weekly Transmission 21 III Thursday 26 May 2016 .

Images of a rarely seen Ghost City, from the documentation of Prof. Bernhard Brandt

The presence on some mounts of a stamp linked this group of vintage silver prints to a Germangeographer Bernhard Brandt (21.3.1881 Berlin - 20.1.1938 Prag).

The captions point out only monuments and historical walls, but the photographs capturedrare vision of empty streets and ghosty silhouettes. The presence of fires near a church andthe general feeling of hunger among the rare humans indicate we are after November 1917.

The bibliography of Prof. Brandt precise his interest for Russia around the year of 1920 withseveral articles and atlases, before he focused on Brasil.

Weekly Transmission 21 1 Thursday 26 May 2016 .

UNIDENTIFIED PHOTOGRAPHER. Moscow streets, Kitaï Gorod, Red Square and Kremlin,c. 1919. Sixteen vintage silver prints, 110x82 mm or 82x110 mm, captions in Germanlanguage, Prof Brandt’s stamp on three mounts. 900 euros

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