Author Archives: Jens Haas

It’s that time of the year again: planning trips for the summer. I have taken up a side-project of photographing archaeological sites in the Mediterranean. But where to stay? This must be one of the most powerful hotel websites ever, almost a kind of existentialist opera: Le Grotte Della Civita. Then there are more quiet [...]

My favorite L.A. detective story remains Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye. That’s the movie, the ingenious hippie-adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s book. Chandler, I read on Wikipedia, worked his way up to authorship in the genre: “Having started in 1922 as a bookkeeper and auditor, Chandler was by 1931 a highly paid vice-president of the Dabney [...]