Terugreis naar Wenen uit Hainburg an der Donau, Oostenrijk 1930 - 1931

This is 'Terugreis naar Wenen uit Hainburg an der Donau, Oostenrijk', a photo-montage by Berti Hoppe of what looks like a series of happy holiday snaps, laid out in a photo album. I wonder if I was there, what was it like when Berti Hoppe took these images? The journey, the view of the river, a boat, and a town. These images are a series of memories collected into a whole. There's something about this photo montage being laid out in a grid that makes me think about time. Did she put them together at the time, or later? What did she do with them after? It's an interesting way to explore how memory works, like how we piece together our own experiences, trying to find some kind of logic in it all. You can see the artist's hand in it, both literally and figuratively.