History Archives - Annie Wright Photography

My Book Is Out!

Filed Under: Aboudmiaa, Arti et Amicitiae, Book, Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage photographer, Illigh, Isemgene, Monuments, Morocco, Slavery, The Old Kasbah of Illigh, Trans-Saharan trade Tagged With: cultural heritage, Cultural heritage photographer, History, Illigh, Kasbah, monuments, Morocco, Sahara, Southern Morocco, The Old Kasbah of Illigh

May 30, 2021 by admin

Delighted that my book, The Old Kasbah of Illigh; Photography by Annie Wright, has just been published by Maison de la Photographie de Marrakech & … [Read more...]

Here’s Where I Would Like to Be

Filed Under: Animals, history, style Tagged With: History, Paris, photography

April 28, 2009 by jw

In 1920s Paris... gossiping with New Yorker journalist Janet Flanner,... picking up style types in the dressing-room of transvestite circus artiste … [Read more...]

Secret Life

Filed Under: history, photography Tagged With: History

February 6, 2009 by jw

Dr. Aribert Heim - a practitioner of the Mengele school of Nazi medicine - is haunting the headlines with the recent discovery that he ended his days … [Read more...]

Personal Archaeology

Filed Under: haunting, Love Tagged With: History

November 28, 2008 by jw

The entry about Gregory (Nobody at Home, 8 October 2008) set me thinking about a dead person’s continuing presence in the land of the living. Here, … [Read more...]

Minox Redux

Filed Under: Crime, Sacred monsters Tagged With: Crime, History

November 11, 2008 by jw

This portrait of the terrorist Andreas Baader was taken with a tiny Minox camera that had been smuggled into Stammheim Prison where he and three other … [Read more...]

Nobody at Home

Filed Under: Amsterdam ephemera, Love, Melancholia Tagged With: Amsterdam, History

October 7, 2008 by jw

When my friend Gregory died, I found it hard to accept that I would never see him again. I looked everywhere and sometimes I thought that I saw him: a … [Read more...]

Waiting…

Filed Under: relics Tagged With: History

June 16, 2008 by jw

Following the earthquake in China's Sichuan province, this mask has been housed in a private museum, which is being used to store personal belongings … [Read more...]