zeitspur - images from decayed glass negatives

I inherited about hundred 9x12 cm glass negatives found in my late grandfathers cellar. A flood in the 1980ies badly damaged the film emulsion.

The images portrayed live in a small German village just before WW II. Subjects show friends and family, but also Nazi party meetings and members of the SA.

But decay treated them all the same, be it a wedding or a meeting of Nazi comrades.

I see these images as a metaphor for remembering and amnesia alike. I explored them under a microscope.

I have not finished the project.

There is a dissonance between the "beauty of decay" and what the images actually show: the very ordinary life in Germany on the eve of war and atrocities.

What do you think? I'd love some input on this!

Gallery and project introduction: https://www.martin-liebermann.de/art.html#zeitspur

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