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
IMAGE ARCHIVE
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
Open data in ETH Library’s Image Archive
ETH Library’s Image Archive is opening its image database! 250,000 digitised images are now available for free download.
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
A piece of the moon in Zurich – the lunar rock exhibition at ETH Zurich in 1970
„Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.“
With these words uttered by Neil Armstrong during the first moon landing on 20 June 1969, America pipped the Soviet Union to the post in the race to the moon at the height of the Cold War (Jaumann 2009, 36). The years that followed until the last moon landing in December 1972 were
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.
Ermordung eines Privatdozenten – Zum 25. Todestag von Hermann Burger (1942-1989)
Wolfram Schöllkopf, Privatdozent für Glaziologie und deutsche Literatur an der Eidgenössischen Technischen Universität, flieht aus der Sitzung der Freifächerfakultät, der Abteilung 13 für Geistes- und Militärwissenschaften.
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.