Vienna, Austria: Polaroid photo walking tour

By Kerry van der Jagt
Updated November 18 2014 - 11:08am, first published 10:29am
Snapped: A  karlkirche (church) is captured for posterity.
Snapped: A karlkirche (church) is captured for posterity.
Snapped: A  karlkirche (church) is captured for posterity.
Snapped: A karlkirche (church) is captured for posterity.
Snapped: A  karlkirche (church) is captured for posterity.
Snapped: A karlkirche (church) is captured for posterity.
Snapped: A  karlkirche (church) is captured for posterity.
Snapped: A karlkirche (church) is captured for posterity.
Snap happy with a Polaroid.
Snap happy with a Polaroid.
Eras meet: Modern Enzi chairs in the old MuseumQuarter.
Eras meet: Modern Enzi chairs in the old MuseumQuarter.
Lively: Naschmarkt is abuzz in the dusk.
Lively: Naschmarkt is abuzz in the dusk.

I'm in the courtyard of Vienna's MuseumsQuartier, the cultural plaza where traditional baroque meets the avant-garde. It's a glorious summer's day and most people are stretched out on Enzi chairs, those colourful, cult-classic sun loungers for which the plaza is known. While some couples kiss and canoodle, many are on smartphones, heads down, fingers and thumbs tap-dancing across brightly lit screens. Others hold their phones aloft for the ubiquitous selfie, a portrait destined to be artfully aged and added to the other 500 million or so photographs uploaded to social media each day.