Blik op en vanaf hotel Selighof, en Eugen Wachenheimer aan het praten met oom Stephan, april 1933, Baden-Baden 1933 - 1934

This is a page from a photo album, shot in Baden-Baden in April 1933 by a member of the Wachenheimer family. We see three photos showing a view from and of the Hotel Selighof, and Eugen Wachenheimer talking to uncle Stephan. I can almost feel the artist carefully positioning the camera, framing each shot to capture not just a scene, but a feeling. The contrast is stark, the paper grainy, like a memory struggling to stay in focus. It makes me think about what it was like to be there, behind the lens, in a moment of observation. What was the photographer thinking? What did they want to remember? I see a conversation, a landscape, a building, and I wonder about the relationships between the photographer and their subjects, about the stories behind the images they chose to keep. Photography feels so direct, immediate, but like any other art it invites us into a conversation that never ends.