Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: WENNBERG, Staffan
Event Date: ca. 1971
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.042161

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, stamped: Please, do not alter / mark, or airbrush this / print. / Prints must be returned / after use. / Black Star, Library; stamped: [star shape] / Credit:; handwritten [in ink]: STAFFAN WENNBERG; stamped: from BLACK STAR; handwritten [in pencil]: 1-4A; handwritten [in ink]: 9-72-798; typed [on adhered label]: STOCKHOLM - film 1, photo: Staffan Wennberg / This film shows the new downtown area with the / Sergels Torg shopping mall, the new Parliament building / and some of the highrize office buildings. / The ares is a large shopping and communications center with / the Central Railway Station within two minutes walk and / an important subway station. Airline terminals and hotels are also / within easy reach. / 0-1 Highrize [sic] office buildings / 1-6 and 12-22 The new parliament building. This hughe [sic] new / building is actually made up of several sections - a theatre / section with meeting halls, an office section and a hotel / section. The building is planned as a future cultural center / for Stockholm but is being used as parliament building. Though / officially a temporary home for the new one-chamber parliament, / it will be several decades before a permanent new parliament / building will be built. This building combines simplicity of / design with function and the decorating is a mixture of new / bold styles with historic details kept from the old parliament / building which houses the old two chamber parliament. / The new parliament building was first used in January 1971 / when the new one chamber parliament assembled for the first time.; handwritten [sideways, in ink]: STOCKHOLM, SWEDAN [sic] / 9-1972 / NEW PARLIAMENT bldg.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: SWEDEN / STOCKHOLM
Retouching: N