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. Volume 1 contains an extraordinary cross section of shops for everyday needs from the following areas: fashion, perfumery, sweets, a pleating workshop, flowers, a knife sharpener, children’s fashion, coffee roasting, haberdashery, hardware, bedding, leather goods, confectionery, a restaurant, household and kitchen appliances, fine household goods, hats, a barber, a stationery shop, medical supplies, shoes and wallpaper. A few of the shops no longer exist: the Huthaus Frech in Simmeringer Hauptstraße, the Parfümerie Poldi Tesar in Margareten or the Safari Shop in Lerchenfelder Straße …