Dr. Carl Martin u. Marie C. E. Steilberger 

It is good to see this picture as I am a first cousin once removed of Dr. Carl Martin Steilberger who is remembered in the stolpersteine shown in this photo.

It would be very nice to be able to see an enlarged photo so the inscriptions can be more easily read.

Richard Steil Berger

During the past four years, whenever I stumbled across a "Stolperstein" on one of my trips, walks etc , I took a top view shot from more or less the same angle and with an identical focal length. It has become an automatic gesture of mine. Following a strict conceptual approach I want the context to be seen. As a consequence, the actual blocks appear rather small in relation to their surrounding. Yet without seeing them in their (current) environment, one would miss the whole point of the memorial, wouldn't one?

Taken in this manner, there are two ways of looking at these pictures (or rather two modes of presentation I am intending to create): in sequence they trigger a reflection of the interplay between text (epitaph) and context whereas a single foto stresses the particular location and individuality of the persons named.

I started uploading these shots immediately after they "happened" to me inmidst my other uploads and thus one would "stumble across" these shots when following or browsing my stream of fotos of very different subjects. I thought this would be an adequate transfer of the actual artistic concept in fotografic terms. I started doing this in my personal flickr stream as an deliberate attempt to irritate the mainstream audience on flickr with this kind of "content".

On flickr I added notes to the fotos translating the text on the blocks into english. I stopped doing so after leaving flickr a year ago. On Ipernity one does not generate that much traffic as one would on flickr, so I continued the habit of infiltrating the "Stolperstein"-shots yet with reduced effort.

I will take your comment as an inspiration to put more effort into this exercise again.