ABOUT THE PICTURES
Photographs were taken during the month of May 1980, less than half a year after the Iran hostage crisis. Jimmy Carter was still president. Ronald Reagan heavily campaigned, using the Iran crisis to win the upcoming election. --- Camera Nikon F3, film Kodak Tri-X, lenses: 28mm/2,8 - 50mm/1,2 - 135mm/2,8. Digitalized from negatives with Epson Photo V700 in 2016. All images on show are uncropped.
DIETER LUDWIG
1938 Dutch Citizen, lives and works as a graphic designer in Horta, Island of Faial in the Portuguese Azores 1954/58 Studied Cartography - same period evening classes in Free Arts at the Werkkunstschule Braunschweig/Germany 1958/64 Art Director at an Cartographic Institute - The Hague/NL 1964/69 Independent Graphic Designer 1969/75 Co-founder of Traffic Design 1975/78 Teaching Basic Design at the Faculty of Landscape Architecture at Wageningen University 1978/79 Sailing to the Caribbean Islands and back with wife and daughter 1979/80 Teaching Basic Design at the Faculty of Landscape Architecture at Wageningen University 1980/1985 Teaching Design Analysis at the Free Academy of Visual Art/Co-director ad interim - The Hague 1985/88 Circumnavigation together with his wife, the visual artist Agnes Juten 1989/1996 Director of ARTIBUS School for the Arts - Utrecht/NL 1996/2005 Circumnavigation together with his wife 2007/08 Senior Advisor at the set-up of a gallery for Contemporary Art - Gyumri/Armenia 2007/09 Senior Advisor for a Design Company in Ulaanbataar/Mongolia 2010 Moved to Horta, Island of Faial
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