Object of the month

Vinegar syndrome is the enemy of every photo archive. To curb its effects, we are reviewing the slides by F.C. Gundlach and transferring them into archival-safe sleeves. For our object of the month, however, any rescue comes too late. Instead, the slide impressively demonstrates the peculiar beauty that can lie within photographic decomposition processes.

Objects of the Month: Boxes for glass negative plates and photographic papers from Mimosa in Dresden, Kranseder in Munich, Eisenberger Trockenplattenfabrik, Agfa in Leverkusen, and Leonar-Werke in Hamburg-Wandsbek.

The current Object of the Month features slides by F.C. Gundlach, which have made their way back into our archive from Japanese image agencies.

Our Object of the Month is a beautifully designed enlarger from Müller & Wetzig, a special factory for modern projection and enlarging apparatuses in Dresden.

At first glance, our Object of the Month looks more like a drawing than a photograph. In fact, it is a silver gelatin print on baryta paper that was manually reworked after photographic development

For our current exhibition, "F.C. Gundlach. You’ll Never Watch Alone", which is on view at the Bucerius Kunst Forum through August 16, we have reviewed numerous slides from our archive.

Our current Object of the Month is dedicated to Barbara Buffa, who passed away on April 4, 2026, at the age of 100.

Our latest archive find is an elegant embossing pliers that can press the letters "HL" into paper. This article explains what the initials mean and how the tool, coated with hammered-finish paint, ended up in our archive.

The "Photo Angle Finder" from the Japanese manufacturer Horseman is a precise measuring instrument from the analog era of professional and large-format photography. It was used to accurately determine tilt and inclination angles – an essential prerequisite for controlling perspective, horizon, and focus.

Our object of the month is a white, frozen T-shirt on our colleague's clothesline, printed with the "Op-Art-Silhouette" motif by F.C. Gundlach.  

With a Christmas card from 1985, we wish you a Merry Christmas and peaceful holidays!

Our Object of the Month is an oversized Agfa film tin. It served as a promotional item for the company Professional Photo Services, or PPS for short, which was founded by F.C. Gundlach in 1971.