Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Categories: History

Not so long ago we had a post about color photographs of Italy in 1938 (see the link below). An endless series of banners, standards and people in all kinds of uniforms. Magnificent attributes of semi-operatic totalitarianism. After that, it is doubly surprising to see color photographs of the same time taken in 1936-38 in Venice by the Dutch photographer Bernard Eilers (who used the same method as Prokudin-Gorsky). A city opens up before us out of time, in which almost nothing betrays the epoch. And we understand that behind the colorful fake decorations of fascism, the same eternal Italy was hiding, which no political regime can change.

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Market

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Carabinieri at the Doge's Palace

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Streets without sidewalks

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

On the Grand Canal

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

In the same place

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Rialto Bridge

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Gondolas

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Doge 's Palace

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Domes

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Gondolier

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Antique doors

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

At the Rialto Bridge

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Rio San Giacomo dell Orio

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Ponte de la Chiesa

Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers

Bridges

Keywords: 20th century | 30th | Archive | Venice | Italy | Color photography

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