Katharina Eleonore Behrend: Foto's-Photographien: 1904 - 1928

Family life, travel, factory interiors and outdoor nudes form the subjects of this photographic monograph. The photographs range from domestic scenes with relatives and friends to journeys in Algeria, including the temple ruins at Timgad, a camel caravan and a nomadic settlement at Batna. Other subjects include a children's hospital in Hannover and the machinery factory run by the photographer's husband in Leiden. Nude studies of herself and friends reflect her involvement with the German Freikörperkultur movement. The work grew out of an amateur photographic practice accompanied by detailed written records. Alongside diaries, she kept registers recording subjects and sitters, exposure times, aperture settings, locations, dates, weather and lighting conditions. Her archive spans life in Hannover and, after her marriage, in the Netherlands, bringing domestic, travel and industrial photography together within a record of her daily activities.