Tag: PostWar

Brutalist – and beautiful? Captivating new photo book celebrates London’s council estates, from the first post-war housing to iconic blocks that have become some of the capital’s most sought-after places to live

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Why are some London council estates considered notorious while others are arguably the most desirable places to live in the capital?

Photographer Thaddeus Zupancic explores this notion in his intriguing new book ‘London Estates: Modernist Council Housing 1946 – 1981’, published by Fuel.

It ‘celebrates London council estates in all their diversity, championing the neglected alongside the distinguished’ and honours their ‘immeasurable contribution to the social and architectural fabric of the capital’.

Among its pages are 275 estates across

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The America and Europe of yesteryear: Fascinating new Evelyn Hofer photobook takes you back in time, revealing London truck drivers, Irish gravediggers and New York commuters in a post-war world

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Roam American and European cities of yesteryear, courtesy of this beautiful new photobook. 

Eyes on the City, published by DelMonico Books, showcases more than 100 images by legendary photographer Evelyn Hofer.

These time-capsule photos show urban landscapes and people going about their daily lives in the postwar era – the 1950s and 1960s. 

The German photographer, who died in 2009 at the age of 87, shot subjects that included London truck drivers, Irish gravediggers and New York commuters in

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Martin Walser, 92, Dies; Among the Last Postwar German Literary Titans

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Martin Walser, among the last of a generation of acerbic, socially engaged novelists who dominated the German literary scene after World War II, died on July 26 in Überlingen, Germany, a city on Lake Constance, along the Swiss border. He was 96.

His publisher, Rowohlt, announced his death in a statement but did not provide a cause.

Alongside writers like Henrich Böll, Günter Grass and Siegfried Lenz, Mr. Walser wrote essays, plays and novels that skewered what they saw as

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Europa im neuen „PostWar“ – EURACTIV.de

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In den letzten Wochen hat Europa einen Moment der Transformation seines äußeren Umfelds und seiner selbst erlebt. Russlands Invasion in der Ukraine ist zweifellos ein Meilenstein in der modernen westlichen Geschichte – ein starker Wendepunkt – vielleicht stärker als die Finanzkrise von 2009 oder die Migrationskrise von 2016. Es ist ein Ereignis, das in seiner Schwere den Anschlägen vom 11. September ähnelt die Vereinigten Staaten im Jahr 2001.

Anna Diamantopoulou ist Präsidentin von DIKTIO und ehemalige EU-Kommissarin und griechische Ministerin.

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