Object of the month

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

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.

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.

Martin Kippenberger's lightbox from 1989 testifies to his engagement with photography as both an artistic and commercial medium.

We have chosen a particularly fascinating object for June: a small leather case, possibly made of elephant hide, containing a large number of small-format negatives.

While sorting and archiving numerous slides, we came across these special works. Two of the three photographs were superimposed in such a way that they created a strikingly new composition.

In 2023, a dusty cardboard box containing 118 negatives on glass plates of different sizes reached us from the French Charente region, including scenes from the life of a middle-class family.