@bertrom.bsky.social
In a past life, I was a film teacher, photographer, theatre director and film editor. Now a psychogeographer and Jungian explorer searching for my Anima, and some purpose.
Jakob Steinnardt.
The City.
1913.
Felix Nussbaum.
Lamenting Women (Two Girls in Front of a Wall).
1941.
This is him Bob.
I posted some of his work many years ago and had, literally thousands and thousands of responses. Proved to me how wide the interest is in these wonderful quotidian images.
A lovely man.
It does Cathy.
14.02.2026 13:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Peter Mitchell.
Leeds.
1970s.
The man of the pavement.
I have always loved his work.
Inspirational, and a master of the quotidian.
Delaine Le Bas.
England.
2005.
Funchal.
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Blackbird.
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Manuel Álvarez Bravo.
Mexican.
1902 - 2002.
One of the founders of modern photography and considered the main representative of Latin American photography in the 20th century.
Looks like Vertigo to me 😊
13.02.2026 18:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It is Bob. I taught a module on this linking European silent film and Hollywood.
www.thecollector.com/german-expre...
Apparently it’s on Amazon Prime Bob.
13.02.2026 13:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Go on.. give it a go Pauline..
13.02.2026 13:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Robert Wiene.
The Hands of Orlac.
1924.
youtu.be/JV5wN6vRrTQ?...
Photographs by Abbas Kiarostami, 1989.
“I never really learned photography. During the revolution of 1979, it was impossible to make films, and I escaped from the city and found shelter in the countryside. I prefer the countryside to cities.”
I’m deeply disappointed.
12.02.2026 19:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I didn’t know that.
But I did know really.
In retrospect.
Otto Rühle and Leon Trotsky.
Alice Rühle-Gerstel.
1937.
Conrad Felixmüller.
The Agitator (Otto Rühle Speaks).
1920.
Otto Ruhle was a German Marxist in opposition to both the First and Second World Wars, and a founder with along with Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring and others of the group and magazine Internationale.
Oh yes..
12.02.2026 11:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Or else…
youtu.be/dEHjBPS21A8?...
RIP Bud Cort.
A young man obsessed with death falls in love with an old woman obsessed with life. She dies and teaches the kid how to live.
Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window.
Johannes Vermeer.
C 1657-59.
For the past three mornings I have woken up with my heart aching and fragments of words in my head.
‘..one man loved the pilgrim soul in you.. And paced upon the mountains overhead..’
This morning, I remembered where they came from.
When You Are Old.
William Butler Yeats.
I did.
12.02.2026 08:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lotte Laserstein.
Portrait of Katharina and Anne-Marie Riedl.
1932.
Conrad Felixmüller.
Lovers in Dresden.
1927.
A touch of Saul Leiter in there.
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Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti.
RIP Philippe Gaulier.
“Always there must be humanity, complicite and play.”
