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Book of the month / 2020 / 12 December
I love books. Even though I hardly read any. Because my library is more like a collection of tomes, coffee-table books, limited editions... in short: books in which not "only" the content counts, but also the editorial performance, the presentation, the curating of the topic - the book as a total work of art itself.
Formula 1 - The golden age & The roaring 70s
Rainer W. Schlegelmilch
Photo documentary / 2010 & 2011 / Teneues publishing house
"Gentlemen, please start your engines!". There is women's boxing, girl's football and a female wrestling association. Only where it smells of gasoline, rubber and sweat are the men still largely among themselves: in motor sports. With the exception of the successful rally driver Michèle Mouton at the beginning of the 1980s, it remained with episodes and PR stunts; an entire sports segment was and is apparently a male domain. And in it, Formula 1 is considered the supreme discipline.
The heroes of the scene are known even to most people who have no interest whatsoever in fast cars: Juan Manuel Fangio, Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill, Emerson Fitipaldi.... Later James Hunt, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna... Then Michael Schuhmacher, Mika Häkkinen, David Coulthard, Juan Pablo Montoya... And lastly Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen, Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton.... And then, of course, the racetracks: The street circuit in Monaco, the green hell of the Nürburgring in the Eifel, Le Mans, Monza, Silverstone - everyone knows them. On the other hand, have you ever heard of Bahrain or Baku before Formula 1 stopped there?
Since the early 1980s, Bernie Ecclestone has been "professionalizing" Formula 1. Some say he created above all a money-printing machine and subjugated everything to (his own) economic goals. But already in the 60s and 70s there was the "racing circus", the Grands Prix became more present in the media, the fan base bigger and more passionate, hundreds of thousands made pilgrimages to the races and millions to the newsstand.
This was also the beginning of the great era of Rainer W. Schlegelmilch. What Neil Leifer was to boxing at that time, Schlegelmilch was to Formula 1: the documentarian with the camera, the outsider who knew the scene inside out, the archivist of the industry. He was present at over 600 Grands Prix around the world - and meticulously documented them. With around 470,000 slides or digital color photos (since 2004) and around 15,000 black-and-white photos, he has one of the largest archives on Formula 1.
Rainer W. Schlegelmilch was born in Suhl (Thuringia) in 1941. After graduating from high school in Frankfurt am Main, he went to Munich and learned the photographic basics at the Bavarian Institute for Photography. In his final exam in 1962, he already portrayed various racing drivers who took part in the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring. Shortly thereafter, he attended his first Formula 1 Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium). The beginning of a passion. Example: Since 1975 he visited the Monaco Grand Prix every year and always photographed at the same spot as well as from the same angle. The spot is called by insiders ″Schlegelmilch curve″. Deservedly so.
The TeNeues publishing group from Kempen in North Rhine-Westphalia was founded in 1931 and is now in its third generation of family management. In addition to stationery products, the company specialized in picture calendars at an early stage and thus almost automatically ended up with art and photography. Industry giants such as Bruce Weber, Michael Poliza and Robert Mapplethorpe published magnificent works with the publishing house - as did Schlegelmilch with his two illustrated books "The Golden Age of Formula 1" and "Formula 1 - The Roaring 70s".
The first volume "The Golden Age of Formula 1" brings the wild years back to life. Smoking drivers, smoking tires, smoking burnt-out race cars - 50 years ago, Formula 1 was not a clinically pure high-tech business, but a risky full-gas spectacle. And this book brings those wild years back to life. What was actually different about Formula 1 in the sixties than it is today? Everything. Schlegelmilch's photos document the birth of a sport that today thrills millions worldwide. Daredevil heroes in their speeding crates - actually, that's what you'd have to say about Formula 1 in the 1960s. The early heroes of Formula 1 were always (or usually) on the road with a guardian angel, today's safety measures pure utopia. Heroes were born, tragedies survived, legends established. Schlegelmilch sets up nothing less than a monument to these foolhardy days of motorsport. This homage to gasoline is a book that not only documents. Beyond pure sports photography, it shows the zeitgeist of this era.
With the second volume, "Formula 1 - The Roaring 70s," Schlegelmilch continues his mission. The style changes slightly - clearly: the pictures are now in color. The ambition remains, the atmosphere is captured perfectly. And the master lives up to the bar he has set himself. The colorful pictures also have a mysterious and exciting patina, transporting the viewer to a time that was still light years away from the professionalism of the current Formula 1, yet has its own charm. Autobild Sportscars wrote about it after the publication in 2011: "The legendary photographer beams the viewer into an exciting world full of great guys, beautiful women and brutal bolides. Not only for nostalgics to kneel down beautiful." There's nothing left to add to that.
"His unique style of documenting racing and Formula 1 for over 55 years has made him the top reference in the business," says Zak Brown. As head of McLaren Racing and managing director of the Motorsport Network, the man knows what he's talking about. In 2011, Schlegelmilch was honored at Monza with a lifetime press photographer's pass. From the hands of Bernie Ecclestone - a handshake over decades.
P.S.: When my nephew drove a few years ago in cart races and was ultimately successful in the German championship, the most serious competition was - of course - a young lady. Times are changing. For good.
Here is the link to the website of Rainer W. Schlegelmilch
https://www.schlegelmilch.com
And here a clip announcing the inclusion of Schlegelmilch's archive at Getty Images
https://youtu.be/kArck9BwTRE
I'm finally retiring my first notebook (turned sketchbook halfway through) after many years of carrying it around with me, hoping to fill the remaining blank pages, all the while already using many other sketch- and notebooks. It's from teNeues and has been through a lot, so it deserves to rest.
Let's talk planners.
I first started using a bullet journal in 2015 (notebook not featured here), a small purple lined Moleskine. In 2017, I migrated to the Leuchtturm1917 Bullet Journal (the black notebook), and I loved it. For a while. I ended up putting too much pressure on myself to make cute and Instragrammable spreads that it ended up defeating the purpose of the bujo in the first place and I saw myself using it less and less. Interestingly, I read and watched videos of quite a few people who had the same trouble.
In 2018, I decided to buy a planner, and I got the blue and pink by the Brazilian brand Cicero. It worked quite well, even though some months I used it less than others.
Because of this, in 2019 I went for another planner, this time the gorgeous Flower Fantasy by teNeues, and what made me go for it was the fact that it starts at the end of 2018 and it goes up to January 2020. But even though I do like the double spread divided into morning/afternoon/night and the space for notes, it still feels like something is missing, so I started using my Leuchtturm1917 bujo together with it.
This time though, I'm using the bujo as a to-do list. I just write the date and the tasks I need to complete each day, and I usually do this on the night before or on the day. There's no color coding, just me trying to give my fineliners a purpose. This has made me considering bujo-ing again next year.
So, for 2020, I'll be going back to bullet journaling in that last dotted Moleskine and giving one of my many empty notebooks a purpose too. I'll be adjusting the features that I like and dislike from both planners (such as the monthly calendar) and only doing spreads I think are useful from now on.
7.3.2018 // trying to bring myself back into the studyblr scene so I’ll be forced to keep revising for exams
Capture the soul of the subcontinent with this stunning coffee table masterpiece. 🐘✨
We have a sealed, mint-condition hardcover of Andreas H. Bitesnich’s India, published by teNeues. This isn't just a book of photographs; it's a deep dive into the heart of a nation where ancient tradition meets hyper-modernity.
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India is constantly on the move. It moves sideways, backwards, upwards, and forwards. It is a nation of both past and future, where time see
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A best seller - #teneues Best Interior Design on the planet - an honor for #insonduboiswood to be included w 50 of the worlds top #interiordesigner and #architect who’s who. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPVsuhVA7pE/?utm_medium=tumblr
