Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944) “Randonneurs au Tyrol”, 1912-15

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There is a very specific memory from my childhood, the smell of freshly cut grass on a hot humid summer day, a heady perfume. It triggers wonderful moments that probably never occurred. The green in this early twentieth century image reminds me of that. This wonderful verdant green in and out of shadow offers such a comfortable resting place for the eye and soul.

Some of the luminous quality comes from the autochrome process used by Kühn here, a glass plate positive, effusively described as capturing "ethereal dreams of childhood, full of vaulted sunny skies and giddy perspectives, as gloriously cathartic as they are emotionally charged”. *1. This seems an impossible childhood dream — too romantic, too green, too sunny, a family so happy hiking together on a hillside in the Austrian mountains.

*1 Roberts, Pamela Glasson (2012). "Color photography". In Hacking, Juliet (ed.). Photography: The Whole Story. Prestel, pp. 276–277

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