Travel Tips

In 1976/77, a student of mine sold me some film. Unfortunately, she had exposed the film on a trip to Chartres and had failed to fully rewind the film, leaving a tongue that made us think that the film was unexposed.

I made a trip through northern Europe over the Christmas holidays of 76/77. I shot film of Berlin, Scandinavia, and Ireland during this time. This lead to a roll of film in which all the photos consisted of superimposed images, some of them with interesting artistic implications.

This photo combines a photo of one of the walls around Berlin in the Communist era from a moving train, with some stained glass from the cathedral at Chartres at a 90 degree angle.

This is a second photo of a wall around Berlin (not the real "Wall" but part of the enclosures outside of Berlin) superimposed with stained glass windows from the cathedral at Chartres.

This photo is of the one church in Berlin that has been left in its ruined state from the war as a symbol, superimposed with a Renaissance painting (as best I can tell) that you can see only in the image of the church itself.

I believe that this church in snow was in Germany. The country-looking environment contrasts with the stained glass that I assume is from the back wall of the cathedral at Chartres. Actually, I have never been to Chartres; I just have to take the word of the student who sold me the film that that's where she was...

The upright picture is the exterior of a large Gothic(?) church, possibly at Chartres. At 90 degrees rotation is a street scene of an Irish town, probably Galway. The visible building probably has a pub on the first floor.

The photo here is of the cliffs of the island Inishmore in Ireland, taken from the prehistoric fort, Dun Aengus. I can't tell what the overlay photo was, except that there appear to be windows on the lower left corner...

The upright photo here appears to be the duomo (cathedral) in Orvieto, a delightful Etruscan hilltown north of Rome. The duomo has stunning mosaics on the front that glisten in the setting sun (the facade faces west).

Upside and superimposed is a photo of the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome, taken from the piazza in front.

The upright photo appears to be the duomo at Orvieto.

The landscape (at right angles) is a photo of the Via della Conciliazione, the street that Mussolini built in front of the Vatican, leading from Castel Sant'Angelo to St. Peter's basilica.