Object of the month

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.

The PPS-News served as an advertising leaflet for the PPS company, which was founded in 1971 by F.C. Gundlach. Today, the brochure offers a fascinating insight into the photographic scene of the early 1980s.

Stillfried and Andersen's Views and Costumes of Japan is one of the most important testaments to early photography in Japan for a Western audience.

Acetic acid syndrome is a familiar phenomenon in this category. In four sheet film negatives we recently discovered, the deterioration process manifests itself in a remarkable way.

Like a time capsule, the slide cabinet with integrated light table gives us an insight into the working methods of F.C. Gundlach from the 1970s.

Transparent plastic sleeves, which have been used for decades to store slides, are now proving to be a conservation problem.

The white Kodak box camera not only represents a formative phase in Dirk Reinartz's professional career, but also the beginning of his amateur photography.

Glass plate negatives from the F.C. Gundlach archive: The portraits of Heinrich and Katharina Gundlach are not only family records, but early examples of F.C. Gundlach's photographic vision.