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Title: Today's "Can't Stop Looking At It" Photograph
Post by: Ed Wenn on August 02, 2017, 12:31:43 PM

I came across this image earlier today whilst searching for Cold War era photos of the former DDR city, Halle-Neustadt, and I've not been able to stop looking at it.

It was taken in Budapest by József Attila in 1966 and it's all kinds of wonderful. Click on the image below if you want to see it full size.

Title: Re: Today's "Can't Stop Looking At It" Photograph
Post by: Francois on August 02, 2017, 02:14:11 PM

This is surprisingly lovely
Those definitely were the haydays of the utopian high-rise communal dwellings.

Title: Re: Today's "Can't Stop Looking At It" Photograph
Post by: Late Developer on August 02, 2017, 07:26:27 PM

It's an interesting photo, Ed.  It reminds me of a better kept gaggle of tower blocks not far from Salford University. Rough place, the Police went round in threes - and that was inside the station...!

Title: Re: Today's "Can't Stop Looking At It" Photograph
Post by: Nigel on August 03, 2017, 07:04:56 PM

This really pushes all my buttons. For a woolly liberal I love a bit of eastern block utilitarian housing. I went to east Berlin hoping it was going to still look like this, but if it does I missed it.

Title: Re: Today's "Can't Stop Looking At It" Photograph
Post by: Francois on August 03, 2017, 09:12:26 PM

I always find pictures like this a bit interesting, especially knowing what it was like to live there in those days. But somehow it seems the utopian romanticism of the place is more powerful in some ways than the harshness of life...

Title: Re: Today's "Can't Stop Looking At It" Photograph
Post by: Andrea. on August 10, 2017, 10:09:30 AM

Yes, lovely image.
Having said that I found E Berlin [while the wall was up] interesting everywhere - especially the old buildings with rough brick and scaffolding made of nailed wood!