This is my photography blog: information and education focusing on the history, geography, and lifestyle of the Alps. A careful look at what has been, what is, and what will be.
Why zip? Because the Alps are a hinge that unites the peoples of Europe, not a barrier that separates. It has always been so, from the Romans and Barbarians, to the Middle Ages and the modern era...and today it is a magnificent laboratory of contradictions and hyperbole, where beauty and modernity blend together, enclosed within short distances and slight elevation changes.
history of the alps
To use Bachelard’s terminology, we could say that in broad terms the
images of the mountains produced between the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 19th emanate two different imaginary auras. On the one hand we find a congeries of
images linked to the power and fragility of the Alpine environment, a part cursed with a gloomy aura of loss, of transience, of annihilation; on the other hand, purity, beauty, originality, healthiness, the challenge with oneself.
