Blik vanuit hotel Selighof op een berglandschap, en oom Stephan op een trap, april-augustus 1933, Baden-Baden Possibly 1933 - 1934

This album page, featuring images taken by the Wachenheimer family in Baden-Baden between April and August 1933, arranges snapshots of the landscape and a relative on a single page. The monochromatic tones evoke a sense of nostalgia, and I imagine the family carefully composing each shot, thinking about light and shadow in relation to memory, loss, and longing. The crispness of the photographs contrasts with the soft focus of the surrounding world. Look how the family documents not only the landscapes, but their presence within it: each image a trace of time spent together. The images are like small windows into a specific time and place, and they invite reflection on the passage of time, the nature of memory, and the human desire to capture and preserve moments. I wonder what kind of camera they used to capture this moment? What type of film? By preserving these images, the Wachenheimer family participates in a larger conversation about photography and the nature of memory, a tradition of visual world-making, and what it means to document experience.