{"id":490852,"date":"2009-08-04T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=8765"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:36:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:36:15","slug":"photography-of-zoltan-glass-digitized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/photography-of-zoltan-glass-digitized\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography of Zoltan Glass Digitized"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Sculpture<\/a>The National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, is currently in the process of raising a photographic treasure. The project, which aims to scan a large proportion of the photographs housed in the Zolt\u00e1n Glass archive, will systematically catalog the work of the artist, whose main creative periods came in the 1930s and 1950s, and to make them accessible in digital format. The Bradford collection numbers around 6,000 images in total; the work is scheduled for completion in April 2010.<\/p>\n

Zolt\u00e1n Glass was one of the great photographers of the 20th century \u2013 and automobiles were one his favorite subjects. During the 1920s and 1930s he was also commissioned by Daimler-Benz AG to take many photographs of Mercedes-Benz vehicles. Glass, for example, documented the period of the classic Silver Arrows, the cars that dominated international grand prix racing from 1934 onwards. But he also turned his masterful skills to photographing the brand\u2019s production vehicles for publicity material. He could even turn ostensibly uninspiring subjects, such as Mercedes-Benz vehicle production, into aesthetically pleasing images. After the death of Zolt\u00e1n Glass in 1981, his photographic legacy was acquired by the National Media Museum, which houses one of Europe\u2019s most important photographic collections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n