The Kodak Days! - The old pictures.

The Retina IIc box and a Retina Ia

Some months ago I bought at the Mimapi in Cologne an original Kodak Retina IIc (Typ 029, 1957–1958) box with many original Kodak filters and the sales receipt of the Retina inside it. The person bought the camera in 1957 for 318 DM. 

But there was also a small plastic can from Schmitt & Schmitt with three 35mm black&white Agfa Isopan F filmstrips inside it. One strip was a negative strip and the other two strips were contact strips. 

I think the negative strip was shot first, because the people were a little bit younger there. They posed in front of the Kölner Dom and the city of Cologne. You can recognize the great differences in comparison to today. The two contact strips are from 1960/61 and 1963, which was recorded on the back of the films. There they already had a little boy. 

 

 

The Zeiss Ikon Days - part 4.

From the 1890s till the 1950s, the simple box cameras were very popular as the basic camera for everybody. They were cheap and simple to handle. Only remember the slogan from Eastman Kodak: "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest". Like today people in the 1920s shot pictures of the persons they loved, which you can see at the following five vintage pictures.

I have two box cameras, a Balda Rollbox from my great-grandmother and a Brazilian KAPSA. But both cameras are still in Brazil. Fortunately my girlfriend has a wonderful camera collection specialized in German cameras of the 1950/60s. Among other medium format cameras she also has a Zeiss Ikon Box-Tengor 55/2 postwar version (1950-1952). The Tengor is an untypical box camera. Unlike normal box cameras the Tengor hasn't the typical and simple meniscus fixed focus lens, but a real doublet lens.

At the Zeiss Ikon Days I used the camera with an Ilford HP5+ film and here are some of the pictures I made:

The Tichý look

Blackbird Project - MailArt project

I've participated at the cool MailArt project Blackbird Project, Brazil.
Here my work: 

WIRRWARR 08/15 @ Paraty em Foco

"WIRRWARR 08/15 - As Montagens" is one of the selected works in the category Portfólio Em Foco at the 10th Paraty Em Foco - Festival Internacional De Fotografia.
See it here at the page of the festival!

EDIT 07.09.2014
And here at their facebook page

take me out...

Yesterday I found at the roadside a strange looking frame, which someone threw  in the garbage. I stopped and picked up the frame. 
But it's not only the frame, but also a hand colored photo of a young lady. 

Unfortunately, some insects, which like to eat wood, just destroyed the frame. Therefore I just kept the photo and the acrylic, which is convex. I hung the frame at a tree...yes, a little bit of land art ;)

 I still don't know what to do with the photo, but it has got some potential...

picture in the picture...

It's really quite funny on what kind of ideas you can come, if you work on just one or two photos...
Therefore once more some works with the well known beach photos.
Today I added some old b&w pictures out of the 1930-1950s to the both photos.

"am strand 01", brasil, 2013

"am strand 02", brasil, 2013

"am strand 03", brasil, 2013

"am strand 04", brasil, 2013

"am strand 05", brasil, 2013

"am strand 06", brasil, 2013

"am strand in den bergen 01", brasil, 2013

"am strand in den bergen 02", brasil, 2013

siegerurkunden.

If you are or were a pupil in Germany, you know the Bundesjugendspiele (Federal Youth Games) and certainly you hate them. It's every year the same old shit since the 1950s.

My father took part in the competitions in the 1960s and won in 1964 and 1966 in the Dreikampf (three-way battle) Siegerurkunden (winner's certificates).
Here the scan of his 1964 winner's certificate:

30 years later I also took part in the Bundesjugendspiele and won in the years 1994, 1996 and 1997 in the Leichtathletik / Dreikampf (Athletics / three-way battle) winner's certificates.
Here the scan of my 1994 winner's certificate:

  
Today I've printed on the 1966 and the 1996 winner's certificates two pictures to test whether it is worthwhile to use the paper for palimpsests.

"dreikampf 1966", brasil, 2013

"leichtathletik 1996", brasil, 2013

I think that the winner's certificates are perfect for palimpsests!
I'll use the other three winner's certificates (1964, 1994 and 1997) for a triptych, but I still not know which pictures I'll print on them.