Isabel Wachenheimer met Leo Blumensohn buiten in een bergachtige omgeving, 1945-1949 1945 - 1949

Editor: This gelatin-silver print, titled "Isabel Wachenheimer met Leo Blumensohn buiten in een bergachtige omgeving, 1945-1949," feels so intimate, like stumbling upon a memory. What do you make of this chance encounter, Curator? Curator: It’s interesting, isn't it? This snapshot isn't just a picture, it whispers stories. It's a staged landscape and also seems casual – which one feels more compelling to you? I get a sense of formality mixed with something more vulnerable. I think the setting does something too – the backdrop isn't just a pretty view. Those mountains were seeing it ALL then! Editor: You're right. There’s something melancholic about those looming mountains and how they dwarf the figures. I keep wondering, were they truly happy or just pretending for the photo? It's making me a bit uneasy! Curator: That’s the charm of these unearthed portraits. They capture fleeting moments with such permanence, freezing ambiguities in time. Maybe they were overjoyed, maybe it was a strained peace… who knows? And think about that technology: photography felt miraculous at that point! It froze things in ways that our minds cannot anymore...it had that power then, don't you think? Editor: It makes me realize how much context is missing and that what we're looking at now is, essentially, a historical echo of a particular moment. Curator: Precisely! Every faded photograph is an untold story. And it also leaves a door ajar…for us to see a different part of history – even now, and perhaps even in the future. What a crazy privilege to have it to think through! Thanks, past. Editor: Thanks. Looking at the world around us to glimpse history more openly is cool!