HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, Moment, 1975
3 vintage colour photos, each 15 x 10,5 cm
Photo: Thora K. Johansen, Amsterdam
These pictures were taken during a stay with friends in a villa in Canneto Pavese at Christmas holidays time in 1974. On New Year's Eve, Hreinn asked Thora to take successive photos just before midnight of a jump (of 'a moment', 'an invisible treshhold' as he put it), one at the stroke of twelve, and one immediately afterward. It was not the intention to make an edition of that.
It had to remain ephemeral and transient, almost like a story and continue to live on as a story.
In 2018 the A6 photos were put on the website of Galerie van Gelder for the first time ever. All these years they were glued-in in a family photo book of Thora K. Johansen who took the pictures, and until then they were only accessible privately.