Atlantikwall photo contest

If you like photography or if you think bunkers are awesome, then you should participate in the Bunkerzoom Atlantic Wall Europe photo contest. Just go out and look for hidden treasures all over Europe and create your own image of this bunker heritage. Who is not familiar with them? Bunkers in the landscape, hidden under […]

Posted on December 17, 2020 at 12:58 pm by Arthur van Beveren · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Monuments de Chagrin

Over the years, numerous photographers were fascinated by the bunkers of the Atlantikwall. The big inspiration, I think, for all these photographers was the French cultural theorist, urbanist, and aesthetic philosopher Paul Virilio. His 1975 book Bunker Archéologie is a classic, and also the first to examine the concrete World War 2 structures in detail. […]

Posted on September 28, 2020 at 10:04 pm by Arthur van Beveren · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Batterie Longues-sur-Mer and Pointe-du-Hoc on 1944 video

PhotosNormandie shows high resolution photos of the US Signal Corps and more from 1944 on Flickr. They also have a Youtube channel with raw film material from the same period. There’re a lot of well known images and film images but to see all the raw material is amazing, plus it’s very interesting study material. […]

Posted on September 10, 2014 at 2:50 pm by Arthur van Beveren · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Regelbau, the photo series

Until the end of March and during July, August and September I’m presenting my photo series ‘Regelbau’ in Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, the Netherlands. It’s a study on the German standardized bunker from World War Two and its current state both as an historical object and a part of present nature. A fascination for modernist materials such […]

Posted on March 21, 2014 at 5:30 pm by Arthur van Beveren · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Karola from the air

Fantastic video by Olivier Benoit using a Canon 5d MkII and a drone (small remote controlled plane) of the Karola fire control tower on Île de Ré. More of his work on http://noibix.com/blog/                

Posted on November 28, 2011 at 9:44 am by Arthur van Beveren · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Battered Normandy

Since it’s June I found It interesting to share the following initiative that focuses on the Normandy landings through Photography. On Flickr you can find ‘PhotosNormandie‘. A collaborative project for social indexing of historical imagery taken during the Normandy campaign from June 6 to the end of August 1944. Here photos from several archives are […]

Posted on June 17, 2011 at 2:05 am by Peter de Krom · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Forteresses Du Dérisoire

First of all, thank you Arthur, for the very friendly and graphic introduction. On this Blog I will deal with the Atlantikwall from different and hopefully surprising perspectives. As I also try to do in the muddy fields and sandy beaches, or in the dusty archives surrounded by funny smelling paper. I always try to look beyond […]

Posted on June 7, 2011 at 2:02 am by Peter de Krom · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Reliving history

On 19 September a step back in time was made on the Forteiland in IJmuiden. Here’s an impression.

Posted on September 29, 2010 at 11:23 pm by Arthur van Beveren · Permalink · One Comment
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35p8 Fjell

35p8-fjell, originally uploaded by Artz!.

Posted on June 9, 2010 at 7:16 pm by Arthur van Beveren · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Bunkers in 3D

Wim Hoppenbrouwers shows us some of his work on the Fortificatieforum: 3D bunker photography. See more examples on the forum.

Posted on April 2, 2010 at 5:19 pm by Arthur van Beveren · Permalink · Leave a comment
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