So sad, the many details are lost to time...
Gwar, I think it was simply disinterest on my part at the time.
All these photos from those years are in the grandfather's estate, but they are very small format paper prints.
It's an enormous amount of work just to sift through all that footage, or scan it, for example.
For many years I didn't even bother with it anymore, it just became too much for me, there were more important things in my life.
In most German families, such photographic memories were and are simply thrown away.
The albums and pictures still end up in the trash today.
If I told you what photographic treasures we were still pulling out of the waste paper garbage cans in the 1990s, you wouldn't believe me.
You would have to have four lifetimes just to sift through all that, to edit it...
It is, as it is, very simple, and very difficult.
To scan one of the then small paper prints, to edit it, that's at least an hour's work, or more.
If you really want to get something out of it, don't even get me started on the negatives of the photos back then...
Hans
The paradise of the successful lends itself perfectly to a hell for the unsuccessful. (Bertold Brecht on Hollywood)
