テヘランのアーティスト・レジデンスで、フリーマーケットで写真集を見つけたんだ。At an artist residency in Tehran we found a photo-album at a flea market. Being from one big family, the pictures tell the stories of a new modern house and a trip to the nearby mountains of Damavand. Probably around late 1960s.

ドイツ国防軍のアルバムの中から、1枚を抜粋しました。Excerpt of one of our collection of Wehrmacht albums. Produced in 1937, this book contains some explicit images from the invasion in Poland (not on display). Other albums from our archive show impressions of very empty streets in Paris and Lyon in 1940 and a more relaxed situation in Sicily in 1941. War photos of…

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.