View of bundled and stacked "reet" [a swamp grass or reed used for thatching], Hamburg, Germany

People:

Klaus Frahm (photographer)

Title:

View of bundled and stacked "reet" [a swamp grass or reed used for thatching], Hamburg, Germany

Date:

1980

Description:

- There are nine photographs by Klaus Frahm which show stacked bales of straw or "reet" in Hamburg, Germany (PH1985:0285, PH1985:0292, and PH1985:0294), Mainz, Germany (PH1985:0287 - PH1985:0290), Tirrenia, Italy (PH1985:0286) and Toscana, Italy (PH1985:0293). "Reet" is apparently a swamp grass or reed used for thatching roofs in northern Germany (see the photographer's inscription on photograph PH1985:0294). Four of the photographs show bales of straw or bundles of reet stacked in various ways (PH1985:0285, PH1985:0289, PH1985:0292, PH1985:0294). Photograph PH1985:0287 shows a stack of bales of straw covered in plastic. The remaining four photographs show bales of straw stacked in the form of houses (PH1985:0286, PH1985:0288, PH1985:0290, PH1985:0293).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 20.0 x 25.3 cm sheet: 30.3 x 35.7 cm

Reference number:

PH1985:0294

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

numbered, inscribed, dated and signed - by the photographer, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "450 410"; l.l. to l.c.: "Reet / (material used for roofs in / North Germany; grows in swamp - [sic] / areas and is cut in the winter, when / the ice is thick enough)"; l.c.: "Hamburg 1980"; and l.r.: "printed 1985 / Klaus Frahm" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "SU"

Location:

Hamburg; Germany;

Subject:

architecture
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

thatching
reed

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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