Het meer van Lugano tijdens een vakantie van de familie Wachenheimer, zonder personen afgebeeld, 1935, Lugano 1935

This page of photographs was taken by the Wachenheimer family in Lugano, Switzerland in 1935. I imagine one of the family members meticulously placing these photos into an album, aligning the edges of the prints with the edge of the cut-out space. In each of these images, the horizon line meets a distant mountain. The point of view of the camera shifts slightly from each photo to the next, creating an intimate visual record of their holiday. Look at the way the mountains loom over the buildings. What was it like to see these buildings nestled so closely against such a natural monument? The soft, overcast light creates a gray atmosphere. The absence of people gives an eerie, unsettling, and dreamlike quality to the documentation. The bridge cuts through the landscape and gives a sense of movement and flow. Artists have always travelled and taken inspiration from new landscapes. I wonder where the Wachenheimer family travelled next?