Eckart Titzenthaler, zoon van de fotograaf, en een onbekende jongen staand voor een schutting 1918 - 1919

Waldemar Titzenthaler took this gelatin silver print photograph of his son and an unknown boy, sometime in the early twentieth century. What can we say about these kids— Eckart and friend— captured in this moment of semi-nudity against a rough wooden fence? You just know that the artist was trying to show how real he was by focusing on the texture and the grain in the wood. What was he thinking? Was he thinking about mortality? You know, that time moves on and children grow, and we get old and die? The artist, Waldemar Titzenthaler, seems to want to let the viewer feel something really intense about the fleeting moment. In the end, art making becomes a form of embodied expression, opening up a space of play around the artwork, and allowing for multiple interpretations and meanings. That's what great art can do!