A different Vietnam through the lens of Austrian photographer
VietNamNet Bridge - Through the black and white photographs of the Austrian photographer Josef Höflehner, Vietnam shows up with a strange beauty.
Austrian photographer Josef Höflehner traveled around the world to take photos of many beautiful places. He went to Vietnam twice, in 2007 and 2012 and then he introduced a set of unusual black-and-white photos of Vietnam.
Höflehner found a lot of different perspectives about the country and people of Vietnam and recorded them in black-and-white photos. The pictures are highly praised by the audience.
In the 2nd visit to Vietnam in April 2012, the photographer spent two weeks to visit the three regions in Vietnam and returned to the places he had visited five years ago. From Hanoi to Ha Long Bay, through Höflehner’s lens, the beautiful landscapes of Vietnam are both familiar and strange, because of the colors as well as the obsession that they give the viewer.
Below are the most beautiful photos posted on Höflehner’s site:
Snowfall in tropical Vietnam (15th December 2013)
Heavy snowfall caused a traffic jam that extended nearly 5 km on the top of O Quy Ho mountain pass in Sa Pa town in the northern province of Lao Cai on Sunday morning.
Many roads and trees have been blanketed by 5 to 10cm thick snow.
Local people said the snow started falling at 9:30am on December 15 in the Xe mountain area at an altitude of 2,200m.
Nguyen Phuc Thanh, a forest official in charge of managing the Nui Xe mountain area, said that as of 9:30 am today the temperature in O Quy Ho fell to about 2 degree Celsius while the temperature in the Nui Xe Mt area was under 0 degree Celsius.
He added that the temperatures continued to fall as of 11:30am.
Romance of the northern winter
VietNamNet Bridge - Despite of the cold weather, Hanoi, Ha Giang, Moc Chau ... are very beautiful with yellow mustard flower fields, with roads covered by mist or little ethnic minority girls with pink cheeks because of the dry weather.
Moc Chau is always an attractive destination for photographers, especially in the winter. That's the time yellow mustard flowers bloom and apricot and plum trees yield flower-buds.
This photographic heaven is around 180 km away from Hanoi.
Sapa is known as the city of fog. You should visit this place at Christmas to enjoy the characteristic cold of the Christmas.
A little girl follows her mother to Sapa market to sell souvenirs.
Go to Dong Van Market, Ha Giang; you can enjoy a variety of delicious food and buy some souvenirs.
A lovely girl in Sung La, Dong Van district, Ha Giang province.
A lagerstroemia tree with a few leaves left in the winter.
A well- dressed old man is walking from Hang Dao to Hang Gai Street, Hanoi.
Relax some minutes on the Sword lakeside of the elderly.
A lettuce field in Hanoi suburbs.
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The first color photos of Hanoi
VietNamNet Bridge – The Sword Lake, the Temple of Literature with primitive dirt roads or the girls in brassiere are very lively in the works by French photographer Leon Busy.
Photographer Leon Busy was assigned by the Albert Kahn Museum in France to go to Vietnam to capture the lives of the people in northern Vietnam (Tonkin) from 1914 to 1917. Sixty photos were selected from 1,500 works by Leon Busy for the exhibition "Hanoi, color 1914-1917" from December 9, 2013 through January 1, 2014 in Hanoi.
This is a picture of the Hoan Kiem (Sword) Lake.
Through the photographs, the audience can see the normal life or the social classes at that time. The photos also express the belief and religion of Hanoi. In photo: The Temple of Literature.
Viceroy of Ton Kin Hoang Cao Khai's tomb, which is now ruins.
The photo of a paper making base in the Buoi village, Hanoi. The paper making trade in this village has disappeared.
Many photographers left valuable photos of Hanoi in the past, but these photos, which have never been published, are special because they are the first color photographs of ancient Hanoi. The color photography technique first appeared in 1903. In photo: Hang Thiec Street.
A rural market in Hanoi’s suburbs.
The street of colorful lanterns.
"The nails of a Confucian scholar" photo shows that in the past, Vietnamese scholars did not do manual work.
The first color photographs also demonstrated discrimination in Vietnam in the past. In the picture: A middle-class woman was cooking rice.
Hair buns, wearing expensive clothes, with servants standing behinds... are the image of women of the wealthier class. In this picture the three women were playing cards.
Leon Busy also arranged scenes to photograph. Two girls sitting near the tank wore the traditional costume - white brassiere, black pants, light-colored belt and conical hat.
A farmer sitting amid the drying ground, showing the concept of wealth in the ancient agricultural life. The larger the drying ground is, the more rice the family has.
Two rural women just picked up spinach, they wore four-panel dress, white brassiere and kerchief.
Wrestlers worship the village god before a match (in Xa La village, Ha Dong district).
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(http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/vietnam-in-photos/91773/the-first-color-photos-of-hanoi.html)
Photos: Sa Pa terraced fields covered in snow
VietNamNet Bridge - To capture these stunning pictures of snow and ice in Sapa town and on the O Quy Ho Pass, the photographer had to walk 20km because snow was too thick and all kinds of vehicles could not move.
Snow covers the terraced fields in Sau Chua, Sa Pa.
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