After the Ghost of Kyburg Castle today it is the turn of another specter. Enter Döttingen Ghost, who seems to be far less notorious, than its crony from the Kyburg. Maybe the lack of publicity has to do with its having no castle to dwell in and its roaming the streets instead. For this is
Roland Lüthi
Spook in Kyburg Castle
The Spook in Kyburg Castle is legendary and well documented. At the end of the year 1957 the Swiss magazine Schweizer Illustrierte Zeitung made an experiment with the resident ghost and five volunteers. The question was: is the present generation still afraid of
Exhibition “Comets in Counter Space”
In collaboration with ETH Library’s Image Archive, the exhibition venue Counter Space in Zurich presents a three-part, associative image and sound project based on the historical genre of the diaporama. The exhibition finds surprising ways to
The Eiger Sanction – to mark Clint Eastwood’s eighty-fifth birthday
On Sunday, 31 May, Clint Eastwood celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday. To mark the occasion, we are displaying a number of photographs from the archive of the photographic agency Comet Photo AG, which were taken by B. Albrecht on the set of Eastwood’s The Eiger Sanction in
The “Frauenbad” in Zurich by Tadashi Kawamata
Tadashi Kawamata is a Japanese artist who is rather well known in Switzerland. Since the 1980s, he has been realizing more or less ephemeral path-like or hut-like wooden constructions in urban areas all over the world. Over the course of time, Kawamata realised a series of bath houses in Switzerland, starting with the Frauenbad in Zurich in 1993.
“Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.” On the 30th anniversary of the death of Truman Capote (30.9.1924-25.8.1984)
The widely travelled American writer Truman Capote spent several times in Switzerland during the 1950s and 1960s. The photograph shows him on arrival in Zurich Kloten, presumably in 1956.
World Trade Center New York (1970-2001)
Forty years ago, on April 4th 1973, Minoru Yamasaki’s World Trade Center in Manhattan opened officially. The following photographs were taken in 1971 by Heinz Baumann from the agency Comet.
Charles F. Blunt: The beauty of the heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe: one hundred and four coloured scenes illustrating a familiar lecture on astronomy (London, 1842)
To illustrate the science of astronomy, Charles F. Blunt has created 104 coloured panels entitled The beauty of the heavens. Together with the explanatory text, they are intended as instruction for the whole family: