Googling Former Homes (4)
24/10/06 17:04 Filed in: Web
We are now into the realms of peripheral vision
– I have managed to find two images which
show (or almost-show) two of the three buildings
I lived in in Hamburg in the mid-/late-80s,
caught at the edge of photographs of unrelated
matters.
William Gibson
would surely be proud.
This
photograph is one of many from an activism site,
recording the stages of a demonstration. The
square archway (?) in the building to the left is
the entrance to the first flat I lived in when I
moved to Hamburg in 1986 – you’ll
need to click on the thumbnail to see the larger
version.
I have to say, the scene itself is very much how I remember the time.
Another
photograph from an activism site – this
time the slightly tamer world of cycling
activism, cataloguing the blocking of cycle
paths.
I lived in two flats in the building to the right – the ground floor front (visible here), and – briefly – the floor above.
Clicking on the thumbnail will give you a larger version, should you wish for such a thing.
The third building from my time in Hamburg is proving elusive. Surprisingly so – the area itself has been much-photographed recently, since the railway goods yards which fronted the entire street have recently been abandoned, leading to many a photoset on Flickr and Hamburg media sources. Somewhere on the edge of a photograph must surely lurk the 5-storey Altbau on the corner of Harkortstrasse and Holtenaustrasse.
I have to say, the scene itself is very much how I remember the time.
I lived in two flats in the building to the right – the ground floor front (visible here), and – briefly – the floor above.
Clicking on the thumbnail will give you a larger version, should you wish for such a thing.
The third building from my time in Hamburg is proving elusive. Surprisingly so – the area itself has been much-photographed recently, since the railway goods yards which fronted the entire street have recently been abandoned, leading to many a photoset on Flickr and Hamburg media sources. Somewhere on the edge of a photograph must surely lurk the 5-storey Altbau on the corner of Harkortstrasse and Holtenaustrasse.
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