Kultur

[porphyry]

Long ago Yahoo destroyed a huge cache of photos we stored on-line with them—no accident or anything, their policy just changed and there was no long anyway to view or download anything but thumbnails. Recently however, another web-service has made it possible to rescue these lost photos. I have placed one folder of them on the web. The folder was called Kultur, and I suppose I thought the images reflected the ideals of aristocratic life in Wilhelmine Germany—even the aristocratic view of peasant culture--but really I don’t recall collecting it, or where any of the images came from. Here is a sample: And the link: http://picasaweb.google.com/Anebo10/Kultur

Comments

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Perhaps this link will work (no idea why the one in the body didn't).

http://picasaweb.google.com/Anebo10/Kultur

[petrusplancius.livejournal.com]

Seems to a mixture of folklore, kultur and kitsch; it is always fun to see anything like this connected with Wilhelmine Germany, it was such an eccentric place. What on earth is going on in that first picture?

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

The witches' sabbath, you mean? I presume its a group of senile old women who had smeared themselves with flying ointment and flown to the Brocken to kiss the devil's ass, and drink a sacrement made from dew collected off cow-patties, just like it says in the trial records.

[petrusplancius.livejournal.com]

No, the one just above with the scattered papers and broken bottles. (I didn't know about the dew from the cowpats though!)

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I could make up something pretty interesting, I suspect, but I have no real idea.

That kind of teatment of landscape seems to have been popular though:


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[malkhos.livejournal.com]

"Teatment" would be rather appropriate to the second picture.