Paste Ups, Murals, Graffiti, Guerilla Knitting, Guerilla Gardening, Anonymous Sculptures and more.
The Eternal Archives were created by Peter Putz in 1980 and can be understood as a dynamic encyclopedia of contemporary identities. They are one of Austria’s most comprehensive non-commercial, independent image databases, with images dating from 1905 and a metadata index with detailed keyword referencing.
The focus is on photographic note-taking: preserving traces of everyday activity, documenting and comparing a variety of places where people live and work. These photographic records interconnect to form a multi-facetted network of greatly differing realities, with particular attention being paid throughout to the profane, the normal, the ordinary and thus pointing out its importance. Images are collated into thematic tableaux.
