Photographic archive of Present Time

Everyday photos documenting holidays, weddings, office parties, and the contingent background are valuable source material for historical research. However, a multitude of contemporary photos, stored in virtual photo albums, is bound to sink into oblivion when Web 2.0 with its photo hosting sites Photobucket, Picasa, Flickr, ecc. goes under —whereas the photos collected in this low grade archive here shall remain to present today's life to future historians, to illustrate the history textbooks in centuries to come. Hah!

• Walls shielding domestic space against the vegetable onslaught
• “Offenbacher Wald-Zoo” satirical street installation
• The semi-historic city centre consumer experience
• Black tower of Deutsche Bank against the sun
• Old-time industrial minaret in Frankfurt West
• Small-town roofs / garret window
• Closing time at Eschborn Süd
• BBQ and Sociopathy
• Urban green space
• Cloud factory
• Gravel plant
• Advertising concept art
• TV at night in the darkened living-room
• Bathroom-door in a single apartment
• Motion in dim-lit assisted living flat
• Assisted living facility
• The presence of antiquity
• Lararium at night
• Extreme points of domestic space
• Voracious appetite and domestic subsistence
• Budget champagne for a Sunday breather
• Conjuring up breakfast at the table
• Aperitif at dining table
• Domestic cooking
• Senior dining
• Peafowl harem on post-seasonal balcony
• Small-town centre with nude sculptures and birds
• Rarefied urban traffic on an autumn evening
• Dirty old men riding the steam train
• Frankfurt Christmas market
• Revellers at Frankfurt Christmas market
• Xmas-tree engineers in the festive preseason 2008
• Deutsche Bahn illuminating a late December evening
• New Year's Eve 2007/2008 fireworks
• New Year's Eve 2007/2008 smog and flares in the street
• Post-incendiary calm on New Year's Eve 2007/2008
• Access to nature in an office car park
• Open-plan office on Frankfurt's top floor
• Open-plan official evening quiet
• Open-plan sundown
• Cattle drive to the office towers of Eschborn
• Goethe beim Schreiben der Neunten Symphonie
• Caged life in Frankfurt's office exurb Eschborn
• Bottled office life in Frankfurt's exurb Eschborn
• Living water / verdant life in the office (@ Eschborn)
• Low-budget bonsai Zen garden in an Eschborn office
• Zen and the view from 4th floor office window
• Luminous potted object on office window-sill
• Office floor : carpet, furniture, equipment
• Window-sill vegetation in the office
• Window-sill vegetation in the living-room
• Flipchart aviability -or- Leadership ist der Socke des Werts
• Art in DB office tower (German Railways · Silver Tower Frankfurt)
• Restauration by force of liverwurst · Leberwurst macht frisch
• Vegetarian beverages, common fuel of social cohesion
• Men in black tucking into the cake buffet
• Taproom diversion
• Downturn orgy in early 2009
• Recessive goldfish bowl
• Football on the roof
• Descending an interior staircase
• Goose making itself at home on a roof
• Domestic cat chasing time on a projecting roof
• Local post-industrial sub-luxury tourism
• Bird's-eye view of beer garden parasols
• Fat bird outside the window

Also

• Middle-class living room with rhinestones (and bad focus)
• Shoeboxes stacked up on shelves in a private storage room
• Shopping bags on the wall of a private storage room
• A single apartment in the Frankfurt region
• Bread slices spread with jams and honey
• Yoghurt cup in the kitchen sink
• Blue socks in a domestic environment
• Urban duck pond water surface
• Spotlight on STD prevention
• Twilight of a condom
• Bedside squeezable
• Houses against the snowy sun
• Yuletide fir twigs in the reborn winter sun
• Fat periurban sparrows on a balcony balustrade
• Crane in an urban duck pond of Frankfurt
• Concrete mixer lifted by a crane
• Construction equipment on the roadside
• Tree in the wooded outskirts painted with signs
• Route diversion in the small town of Heusenstamm
• Package cushioning : cardboard and scrunched paper
• Papers on a multi-purposed table
• Office desktop with stuff in the low sun
• Scrunched paper napkin versus splash on office desktop
• Wooden table used for storage and various domestic tasks
• Domestic rubbish – residues of cleansing and nutrition
• A flock of paper recycling bins on the hillside of Freiburg
• Into a communal litter bin on the roadside of Heusenstamm
• In the (small) concert hall of Frankfurt's conservatoire
• Sunlight on the duvet; behind the shutter: noon
• Private function in the taproom of an inn
• Severed blonde airhead on the pavement
• Painted pedestrian crossing the road
• Pedestrian hitting the road
• Birkenstock in full stride
• The terror of summertime legwear
• Turn of the millenium pjs on an undone bed
• Sycamore-lined river walk on Frankfurt's south bank
• Small clouds caught in high-voltage cables spanning the evening sky
• The indian summer of Eschborn (Frankfurt's office exurb)
• Forecourt of an office tower (with trees & rectangles)
• (Relatively) high altitude office after sundown
• Translucent cheese – transpersonal space in open-plan office
• Luminous shadows of lamp, workstation, plastic bottle
• Shadow play of workstations in an open-plan office
• Corporate information infrastructure (paperless office)
• Typical carpeted floor in a computerised office
• Lush office vegetation in the waning autumn sun
• Open-plan sunset with earth & sky (and shade)
• Open-plan sunset with official vegetation
• Office lever arch file in the setting sun
• Watering bottle in a corporate office
• Home-office / entertainment combo
• Nocturnal bird bath
• Lift out of service

Tags and graffiti

• German Railways cabin in Offenbach main station; with SFX graffito
• Linear graffiti, tags, and plaster damages near Offenbach main station
• Unfinished graffito of agglomerate letters near Offenbach main station
• Graffiti in urban railway station Mühlberg in Frankfurt (Main)
• Graffiti (detail) in urban railway station Mühlberg in Frankfurt (Main)
• Graffiti (long shot) in urban railway station Mühlberg in Frankfurt (Main)
• See also graffiti archaeology

Railways

• Frankfurt am Main Central Station
  • A clock in the platform hall
• Frankfurt am Main : Westbahnhof
  • Northwesterly view from the upper platform
  • Very rectangular bench at the busstop
• Frankfurt am Main : Rödelheim train station
  • Platform facing the rails
  • Cloaked stop marker (Ne 5 signal) next to railway track
  • Semi-uncloaked stop marker (Ne 5 signal) next to railway track
  • Cloak hanging off stop marker (Ne 5 signal) next to railway track
  • Electricity warning symbol on cable connection to rail on ballast
  • Imprint of Nike sneaker on a coated strip of pavement
  • Sticker residue on outdoor WENZEL intercom station
  • Residues of plastic bags fused on a metal trash-can
  • Teal ring painted on the edge of a platform
  • Pieces of the former second platform
• Frankfurt am Main : Taunusanlage station
  • Advertising concept art on the wall of the city tunnel station
  • Pillar with repaired concrete and tiles, backed by graffiti on the wall
• Offenbach am Main main station
  • German Railways cabin
  • Blue house adjacent to the train station
  • Blue house adjacent to the train station
• Offenbach Ost railway station (above ground level)
  • North view on pillars of smoke and cloud stripes
• Heusenstamm railway station
  • Splashed bituminous drops on paving slabs
• Mannheim Hbf (central railway station)
  • Stained concrete with iron wound leaking rust
• The art of German Railways | Deutsche Bahn
  • Art in DB office tower (German Railways · Silver Tower Frankfurt)
  • Rapunzel is dead - installation in inner court of Adlerwerke Frankfurt

Quasi-aerial photos : Earth from above

• Outdoor switch box @ Heusenstamm
• Parking lot of toom supermarket @ Heusenstamm
• Parking lot of toom supermarket @ Heusenstamm
• Horse chestnut @ Frankfurt am Main
• tarp of horse trailer @ Heusenstamm