Work Description

In their project "Shops with History – Sundry Goods in Vienna", Martin Frey and Philipp Graf have been photographing old business portals in Vienna since 2009. Each page of their online gallery www.geschaeftemitgeschichte.at contains 32 photographs; 24 of these will then be selected for printing in each volume of the photobook, which will be released in a small numbered and signed edition. A photograph commemorating a shop that no longer exists will be attached to the front cover of the book. The book block will be produced using four-colour offset printing, while the protective cover and text pages will be printed digitally. Each copy will feature hand-sewn binding and be wrapped in cellophane. The shopfronts depicted in volume 5 once again represent businesses from a great variety of professions and fields, such as a lighting shop, flower shop, butcher, ­fabric shop, book printer, dry-cleaner, upholsterer, antique ­dealer, ­stationery shop, cafe, cinema, shoe repair service, ­bakery, clothing, gloves, watchmaker and jeweller, shops specialising in tableware, knives and appliances for the home and kitchen, and a hair stylist. The following ­businesses are among those which have since closed: Roul Druck GmbH book printer, Leopold Teufner upholsterer, Füllfeder­zentrale fountain pen shop, Cafesalon, a shoe repair and ­locksmith service, Blutaumüller ­café and bakery, Eduard Dem GmbH clothing, Schweizer watches and ­jewellery, ­Richard Resatz GmbH jewellery and watch shop, Stahl­waren Dorna knife shop, Midnight Hair Friseursalon GmbH hairdressers and stylist Ilse Triebe.