A visit to Berlin, for us the first time since 2003, always brings a search for the past. What was built, what was destroyed, what restored. What are the echos…
“Meeting the past we noticed the dogmas
painted by forgotten doges on enamel plates
in a Berlin impasse.”
eine kleine Gasse in Berlin
“It is a fossil expression
appropriate for the time”
warning
“Washing and fill up with fuel of your vehicle is forbidden at this property”
“A road in France / forgot where and when. // That can happen when using analog film / in old Voigtländer camera.”
(one day later, using memory and internet: this is Rue Diderot, just entered from Avenue de Général Leclerc, Pantin, Paris. May 12, 2017)
“Now look, in that window!”
Now, length plays a role. If you are 20 cm longer than me, you will have a different look.
“Yeah, what is it you wanted to show?”
No doubt, analog photography is different from digital. With digital photos I change little, perhaps enhace contrast somewhat, adapt ligth-dark a bit. Rarely major manipulation with saturation and such. But this Kodacolor film, in Voigtländer Vitoret (dating from early 1960s): different cake…
Poste de Surveillance
Along the same road, Avenue Général Leclercq, Pantin, Paris, there is the the entry of Parking has a guard house, with peculiar roof, or should I say: a sort of canopy?
Grand Garage
Experience learns, a car might leave the exit at some speed…
Cocktails and more
After a while and a strech with the Metro (subway) we have come back to the Paris Center.
Coiffure Sandy
In 2017, people sat at a table for coffee, beer or glass of wine, and terror had decreased. No virus in sight, yet.
If you have a choice…
Indoors, no people smoked, so we had coffee inside. Looking through the window, I noticed a message taped to the glass. Everything else is background. All this happened May 12th, 2017
drager-meurtant 