The history of the photo album goes back to the beginnings of photography. William Henry Fox Talbot published his six-part book “The Pencil of Nature” in England between 1844 and 1846. It comprised 24 individual calotypes pasted in by hand. The edition: 43 copies. However, it sold poorly. But the reproducibility of the calotype was…

We left Japan in mid-December 2022. At home in Europe, we discovered pictures of our house in an old photo album which we found earlier that year. The pictures are probably from the second family which inherited the building and you can clearly see elements that have been preserved to this day.