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A doorway with a poster and graffiti in Heidelberg, Germany
Deciding what to write about this photograph is proving to be a bit of a challenge. From my perspective it sort of “is what it is.” But that doesn’t make for a very informative post, so I’ll try! I made the photograph while walking down a narrow street in the old part of Heidelberg, Germany, on a street that is distinctly not the Hauptstrasse.
Several things intrigued me about the simple scene. First, the poster for “La Nuit Boheme” makes this opera fan thing of, well, you know. I also am fascinated by the angles and surfaces of very old buildings. (In one city full of them I finally realized that the exteriors of such places — unlike in urban America — are not the “beautiful places” most of the time, and the beauty is where passers-by cannot see it; perhaps it is inside or in a small yard. The disconnected feeling of the spaces marked off by different colors of walls, the door, and the pavement seem seem to signify things that were not meant to connect but simply found themselves in conjunction.
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