Isabel Wachenheimer en Else Wachenheimer tijdens een bezoek aan Willy Moos in diens woning in Hamburg, Bellevue 62 1935
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Dimensions: height 90 mm, width 65 mm
Copyright: Rijks Museum: Open Domain
This small, anonymous photograph captures Isabel and Else Wachenheimer visiting Willy Moos at his home in Hamburg. The sepia tones and slightly blurred edges give it a dreamlike, nostalgic quality, like a memory fading at the edges. I wonder, who was holding the camera? What were they thinking? I imagine this moment, the click of the shutter freezing these women on the steps of a grand house. The details in the architecture--the brickwork, the pillars, the climbing vines--hint at a life, a story unfolding behind those walls. The texture of the photograph itself, that slightly rough surface, reminds me of old paper, of something handled and loved, passed down through generations. What stories could this image tell if it could speak? The beauty and stillness of a single moment caught in time.
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