Isabel Wachenheimer op een driewieler in de woning van de familie Wachenheimer, mei 1931, München 1931 - 1935

This photo album page, by the Wachenheimer family, was made in Munich in May 1931. The images are small, almost like film stills, and arranged in a grid that feels both playful and methodical. The tones are muted, full of grays, which emphasizes the passage of time, like a memory fading at the edges. Each photo offers a glimpse of Isabel, sometimes on her tricycle, sometimes framed by windows and doors, creating a rhythm of repetition and variation. In one image, she’s perched on a balcony, dwarfed by a classical column. The light is soft, enveloping her in a gentle glow. You can imagine someone carefully framing each shot, pausing time, not to capture a perfect image but to gather fragments of experience. There's something about this arrangement that suggests a narrative pieced together from fleeting moments. It reminds me a bit of Gerhard Richter's photo paintings, this act of preserving personal history through an artistic lens. It’s a meditation on memory, time, and the stories we tell ourselves.