Enter the Strange World of Vienna’s Disappearing Drinking Dens – Feature Shoot

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Enter the Strange World of Vienna’s Disappearing Drinking Dens – Feature Shoot

Following the sounds of laughter on the streets of Vienna, two documentarians – one collecting photographs, the other collecting words – set out to explore behind the doors of the city’s drinking dens, which are slowly dropping into non-existence.

via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/06/enter-the-strange-world-of-viennas-disappearing-drinking-dens/

In their book Golden Days Before They End, the reflections and anecdotes from Clemens Marschall lend context and meaning to the raw imagery by Klaus Pichler, who with his lens, gets up so close that we can almost smell the age-old fabric of the sofas, and the beer spills and cigarettes that set the mise en scène. The combination of pictures and words sew together the last vestiges of these bars – an ode to the drama, the people, the craziness, and the ritual of Vienna’s Brannweiner