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Remedy (signed)

by Michael Rathmayr

Photographs: Michael Rathmayr

Publisher: Nearest Truth Editions

104 pages

Year: 2025

ISBN: 978-3-200-10784-7

Price: 45 €

Comments: 24x34 cm, fold-out poster

In Remedy, Michael Rathmayr turns his attention to Vienna’s Amalienbad, one of the most significant civic buildings of Red Vienna. Opened in 1926, the bathhouse was conceived as a space of social equality, offering access to hygiene, leisure, and health across class boundaries. Rathmayr approaches the site as both architectural monument and living social organism.

The photographs move between formal detail and observational portraiture, mapping the building’s art deco interiors alongside the rhythms of its contemporary users. Pools, corridors, stained glass, and back rooms are rendered with attentiveness to material and light, while the presence of swimmers and athletes situates the space firmly in the present. As the Amalienbad approaches its centenary, Remedy reflects on the endurance of civic ideals and the capacity of architecture to hold social memory across generations.

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Remedy (signed)

by Michael Rathmayr

Photographs: Michael Rathmayr

Publisher: Nearest Truth Editions

104 pages

Year: 2025

ISBN: 978-3-200-10784-7

Price: 45 €

Comments: 24x34 cm, fold-out poster

In Remedy, Michael Rathmayr turns his attention to Vienna’s Amalienbad, one of the most significant civic buildings of Red Vienna. Opened in 1926, the bathhouse was conceived as a space of social equality, offering access to hygiene, leisure, and health across class boundaries. Rathmayr approaches the site as both architectural monument and living social organism.

The photographs move between formal detail and observational portraiture, mapping the building’s art deco interiors alongside the rhythms of its contemporary users. Pools, corridors, stained glass, and back rooms are rendered with attentiveness to material and light, while the presence of swimmers and athletes situates the space firmly in the present. As the Amalienbad approaches its centenary, Remedy reflects on the endurance of civic ideals and the capacity of architecture to hold social memory across generations.

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