19TH CENTURY Silhouettes of buildings in the fog in BRUGES, BELGIUM; various houses in BRUGES, Various images of the canals in BRUGES; Images of swans in BRUGES; Religious artifacts in BRUGES; Streets and buildings from 19th Century PARIS; Details of shutters and windows in 19th Century PARIS; Outside of a RUSSIAN TRAIN STATION; The inside waiting room of a RUSSIAN TRAIN; Patterned floors of a RUSSIAN TRAIN STATION; Patterned ruins of a deserted GERMAN TRAIN STATION; Various views of RUSSIAN CHURCHS, BAVARIA; Porticos, bells, and friezes in RUSSIAN CHURCHS, BAVARIA. Burnt ruins of Daphne du Maurier’s summer plantation near NEW ORLEANS, USA; Interior and exterior of the Parlange Plantation House on FALSE RIVER,LOUISIANA; Views of SLAVE QUARTERS in a plantation above the FALSE RIVER.
BRUGES, BELGIUM Images from productions of Die Tote Stadt 1974 Bruges was a center for English romantics during the 1800’s It spawned an art movement called Symbolism, and a number of writers and painters worked there including novelist George Rodenbach, Maurice Maeterlinck, painters Ensor, Knoph, Redon and countless others.
PARIS TURN of the CENTURY (from productions of Margo La Rouge, La Boheme) Finding buildings that remain untouched by time is a challenge in
Paris today. In the early 1980’s it became an adventure, and I was surprised how many images from it’s past remained.
RUSSIAN TRAIN STATIONS for a production of Anna Karinina Train stations from the 1800’s are rare, the three below are in Bavaria.
RUSSIAN CHURCHES for production of Anna Karenina The Baden gambling dens were also accompanied by Russian churches, doting the Baden’s landscapes.
LOUISIANA PLANTATIONS & SLAVE QUARTERS For production of Delius’ Koanga. 1969 The ruins below or of the house of English writer, Daphne
du Maurier (Rebecca) which had burned and left in ruins. The interiors are from an extraordinary Parlange Plantation House (1760), above New Orleans on False River.
PLANTATIONS
SLAVE QUARTERS Details from Slave Quarters adjacent to a plantation above New Orleans.
