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Archival Item of the Month | April 2023

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Baden-Baden

Registration for the 1960 Spring Conference

63 years ago, the announcement of the conference was made two months in advance in a similar rhythm as today. Passé, however, were the acceptances and cancellations by postcard.

The following wrote in clockwise order: Theo Schafgans, Walde Huth-Schmölz and Karl Hugo Schmölz, Erich Angenendt, Hans Saebens.

Picture 2: Marta Hoepffner, Fee Schlapper, Regina Relang, Erna Lendvai-Dircksen.

The 1960 annual meeting was not held in Essen, but in Baden-Baden. It made a memorable exit for photographer Ewald Hoinkis, who was staying in a nearby sanatorium. Hoinkis spent the 1st of May still in the circle of his GDL colleagues, during the night he died

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#1 Conference 1960, Registrations © Archiv Deutsche Fotografische Akademie (GDL/DFA)
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#2 Conference 1960, Registrations © Archiv Deutsche Fotografische Akademie (GDL/DFA)

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