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20. MISCELLANEOUS FROM THIS TIME
20.01 / When heavy carts were still rolling through town
[Photo taken: Limmerstraße, Hanover, March 1933]
20.02 / When there were still gas lantern cleaners
[Photo taken: Hanover, May 1932]
20.03 / When there were still romantics
20.04 / When the passage to Heidewegen was prohibited
[Photo taken: Hanover, August 1931]
20.05 / When the milkman and his wife still came to the house
[Photo taken: Hanover, March 1931]
20.06 / When the road was still asphalted by hand
[Photo taken: Schloßwender Straße, Hanover]
20.07 / When the dead were still taken away with horses
[Photo taken: Hanover, March 1931]
20.08 / When there were still unit price shops
[Photo taken: Hanover, March/April 1932]
20.09.01 / Road construction workers (Grouting with liquid tar)
[Photo taken: Braustraße, Hannover]
20.09.02 / Road construction workers
20.09.03 / Road construction workers
20.10 / Break for the roof workers
[Photo taken: On the Hanomag factory building, Hanover, 1930]
20.11 / At the advertising pillar
[Photo taken: Hanover, April 1931]
20.12 / Walter Ballhause studying images of bourgeois photographs
[Photo: Unknown, 1929]
20.13 / Walter Ballhause with the windbreaker under which he hid the Leica
"It is very difficult to have the humiliated and insulted, one might say the destitute, in front of the camera and to photograph them. I had no choice but to wear a matching windbreaker with a slanted pocket that held my hand, and through the lining I always had the Leica within reach. I had to be inconspicuously dressed and move inconspicuously, have everything already set beforehand, the aperture, the distance, in order to be able to take the Photo taken."
(Walter Ballhause at the congress of the association Arbeiterfotografie, Hanover 1982)
[Photo: Lina Lengefeld, August/September 1932]
(Walter Ballhause at the congress of the association Arbeiterfotografie, Hanover 1982)
[Photo: Lina Lengefeld, August/September 1932]
20.14 / Walter Ballhause after first illegality (March 1933 in Springe) and first imprisonment (May–June 1933), Photo taken 1934
[Photo: Henni Dohrmann, married Ballhause]
20.15 / Walter Ballhause 1930 (19)
[Photo: Unknown, Lönssee/Wedemark, July 1931]
20.15.01 / Walter Ballhause 1932 (21)
[Photo: Unknown, 1932]
20.16 / The Heir (my son Rolf with pram in front of ruins, 1949)
[Photo taken: Dresden, between May and December 1949]
20.17 / The young comrade to whom I inquired about communism
In 1931 I asked the young communist, pictured in the book "Superfluous People" on page 222, about the difference between socialism and communism. Standing in the street, he explained to me that communism can only develop when there is no more imperialism. At that time, the release of atomic energy for imperialist wars could not be foreseen. Today, nothing else is at stake but life on this blue planet. It is said, "The stronger socialism, the more secure peace." Is that true? Is that dialectical thinking?
(Letter to Falco Ballon 23.4.1986)
[Photo taken: August 1930]
(Letter to Falco Ballon 23.4.1986)
[Photo taken: August 1930]
20.17.01 / A young comrade
20.18 / The comrade in arms and friend Franz Haas, Bredenbeck/Deister
[Photo taken: September/October 1931]
20.19 / Bemberg silk (for the consecration)
[Photo taken: Hanover, March 1931]
20.20 / My subjective lens (Walter Ballhauses eye)
[Photo: Self-portrait]
20.21 / The borrowed Leica 23981 from Lina Lengefeld, my friend, a comrade
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