Photo study of a housing project for a documentary film with the working title 'Frankfurter Siedlungen' [Frankfurt Housing Complexes], Frankfurt am Main, Germany

People:

Ella Bergmann-Michel (photographer)
Ernst May (role unspecified)

Title:

Photo study of a housing project for a documentary film with the working title 'Frankfurter Siedlungen' [Frankfurt Housing Complexes], Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Date:

between 1927 and 1929

Description:

- There are eighteen single photographs and two promotional panels (each comprising three photographs) which show at least six different housing projects in Frankfurt taken by Ella Bergmann-Michel for a documentary film with the working title 'Frankfurter Siedlungen' [Frankfurt Housing Complexes]: first project -- PH1987:1235 - PH1987:1236, PH1987:1238, PH1987:0531, PH1987:0533, PH1987:0536 - PH1987:0540, PH1987:1223.02:001-003, PH1987:1223.03:001-003); second project -- PH1987:1239, PH1987:0535; and various projects -- PH1987:0534, PH1987:1237, PH1987:0532, PH1987:0530. Photographs PH1987:1241 - PH1987:1242, which also show views of housing projects, are possibly related to the same film project. -- Hoffmann erroneously identifies PH1987:1223.02:001 (p. 70) and PH1987:1223.02:002 (p. 71) as views of Budge-Altersheim, the Budge Foundation Old People's Home in Frankfurt am Main.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver prints

Dimensions:

secondary support: 47.7 x 56.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1987:1223:002

Location:

Frankfurt am Main; Germany;

Subject Descriptive Terms:

housing project

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

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