Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: Okamoto, Yoichi R.
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.003453

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Vienna in Fasching season; handwritten: Austria / Night life; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped: photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto [located within credit stamp]; handwritten: # 15; typed label: Pix Nr. 15-25 / At the “Gschnasfest” the most famous ball of the fasching-balls is the “Gschnas- / -fest” sponsored by the art-soceity of Vienna Members, sculptors, painters, and / designers work for weeks for the decorations and it is primarily a costume affair. / It is always given on three consecutive Saturdays and follows always a general / theme. This years theme was “Half and Half” – first, half, second half, third half. The Gschasfest is usually the wildest of them all and this year was / particularly so.

Tagasauris Keywords: 5 or more people; Art; Austria; Day or night unknown; Face; Formal wear; Indoors; Metalworking; Modern art; Nightlife; Social group; Statue
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AUSTRIA / NIGHT LIFE: FASHION SENSE
Retouching: N