Pre-war Venice in color photographs by Bernard Eilers
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.
Market
Carabinieri at the Doge's Palace
Streets without sidewalks
On the Grand Canal
In the same place
Rialto Bridge
Gondolas
Doge 's Palace
Domes
Gondolier
Antique doors
At the Rialto Bridge
Rio San Giacomo dell Orio
Ponte de la Chiesa
Bridges
Keywords: 20th century | 30th | Archive | Venice | Italy | Color photography