One Couple
Takes the Same Christmas Portrait for 40 Years
on Dec
21, 2012
Spotted by Retronaut, these stereoscopic
holiday portraits of Richard and Anna Wagner — taken every Christmas Eve from
the first year of their marriage in 1900 until just three years before Anna’s
death in 1945 — were sent out as Christmas cards to the couple’s friends.
Today, they inadvertently offer the modern viewer a fascinating perspective on
the passage of time. There are the expected physical changes, like weight
fluctuations and thinning hair, as well as the addition of new technology.
(Check out that vacuum cleaner in 1927!)
“We
know nothing about the Wagners’ motive for taking their photographs every
year,” Douwe Draaisma writes in Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older. “Nor do we know how
they themselves viewed the photographs once the series had started… For the
modern spectator who can page through the whole series and in perhaps an hour
watch 45 years pass by in review, this photographic memory has become an unintended
work of art.” Click through a selection of photos from the series in our
slideshow below, and watch as the decades fly by.
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