Klaus Pichler, the Austrian photographer who is executor of multiple excellent projects, announces his latest wonderful series, Golden Days Before They End. Visiting 'Branntweiner' around the country, Pichler and a writer, Clemens Marschall, braved these small dens which are usually early-opening for hardy regulars. As always with Klaus, it is a beautifully documented insight, this time into a culture on its last legs.
"Pichler and Marschall went on a mission to find, document and explore the last of these refuges for a dying drinking generation. On countless wanderings through Vienna they found some of these places in their final throes. The book is a swansong for these bars that have shaped their customers' existences for decades, places that are soon to disappear forever." From the foreword to Golden Days Before They End.
Take a stroll in the Schrebergärten with Klaus' earlier aCurator feature, see the bizarre scenes at the Museum of Natural History in Vienna in Skeletons in the Closet and check out prisoner tattoos in Scarred for Life.