About the Book
This book is a collection of old promises, a visual profile from the decades before the first Moon landing and before colour television. It is composed of all the postcards, newspaper clippings, travel brochures, and advertising leaflets I kept, pages from dog-eared books and Happy Families cards gone astray. They are orphaned souvenirs from that long-gone era of the sign-off and the long-distance call, the time before the fall of the Berlin wall and the digital revolution. The few things that remained for me from that time I kept.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: History
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Project Option: Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
# of Pages: 182 - Publish Date: Oct 25, 2017
- Language English
- Keywords Newspaper clippings, Airplanes, Airships, Balloons, Apollo, Rockets, Spacecraft, Moon landing, TV, Travel, Timetables, Toys, Models, Advertisements, Books, Postcards, Playing cards, Matchbooks, Ephemera, Memorabilia, Paraphernalia, Planespotting, Aviation
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About the Creator
Wolfgang Schindler
Hamburg, Germany
Wolfgang Schindler was in born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1962. He learned to read and write in the sixties. All of the seventies he spent in school. In the eighties he worked as a postman and as a salesman, then went to university to study architecture, arabic, and arts. During the nineties he called himself an artist and he helped organizing exhibitions for other artists. In the first decade of the twenty-first century he had to close the showroom and worked again as a postman. All his life he carried a camera and took thousands of photos. He still lives in Hamburg.