The TOMIKO Archive

has its own online platform www.tomiko-archive.de

It is an art project in the form of a photographic archive. I began with the collection around 2001 and with its integration into an archive around 2006. The archive consists exclusively of found family/amateur photographs, mainly from the 20th century and mostly from Germany. So far, the collection comprises over 500,000 photographs, which I digitize and tag with keywords piece by piece. Up to now, around 7,000 pictures have been inventoried.

The engagement with private photographs, evidence of what I would like to take as history that has not been handed down, and with the specific structure of an archive, with all its inevitable questions, formed the basis of my interest in historiography, its transmission and legacy - not only in my own work.

How can we preserve alternative, not handed-down history, and how is it to be confronted with the present? How can artistic practice give a voice to suppressed history? Can we find a moment of truth in photographs? What happens to these images in different constellations and environments? I am interested in how fiction and written (up) history mix in the contemplation of each individual picture and how over the decades I become a co-author of the collective historiography: which story do I want to tell and which one was not told? How can I read this off a single photograph? Off an entire legacy? Off a whole archive? And how can I bring it to life and keep it awake over time?

Originally, I was guided in this project by a very emotional thought – that of saving history and entire phases of life which can be found so carelessly strewn on the ground at overcrowded flea markets. This is where the idea of the bundle comes from, because there are no individual photographs in my archive; the legacy is kept together in its entirety.

Many collaboration and projects originated from the ARCHIVE. For more, please go to www.tomikoarchive.de

 

 

F100

21.7.64 [1964]
22.2.66
22.2.66 [1966]
25-5-1953 Cumartesi
25.3.1963 Çarşamba
3 üncü sınıf hatırası
30-12-1965, Marmara Lokali
4 kadın, 3 erkek, Bir çocuk
4 kadın, iki oğul
4.8.64 [1964]
4.8.64 [1964]
Açık gömlekli adam
Açıklamak
Ağzı dolu
Ait olmadığı yer
Ait olmak
Alışveriş yapmak 
Amerikan yerlisi gibi 
Ampul ve çiçeklerle
Ampulün yanında
Anıt
Anıt üstünde ayakkabı
Anıta dokunmak 
Anıta sarılmak 
Anıtın üstünde kol
Anne ve çocuk
Arka planda
Arkada
Arkada
Arkadaki adamlar
Arkası açık
Arkaya yaslanmak
Aslan
Aşk
Aynaya bakmak
Bacakları uzatmak
Bacalar
Bağlı kollar
Başaracağız
Başka bir Türkiye
Bayraklar
Ben değilim
Beyaz eldivenler
Bıyık
Bıyıklı grup 
Bilinmeyen köprü
Bir grup erkek
Bir heykelin göğsüne dokunmak 
Bir kediyi beslemek 
Bir köşede dokuz tane 
Birbirine ait olmak 
Birbirini daha güzel yapmak 
Birbirinin üstünde
Biricik Dayıma sevgilerimle yeğenin
Botu tutmak
Boynun üstündeki kol
Bu geceyi hatırlamak
Buket
Buzdolabı ve ısıtma arasında 
Bülent Gizgin
Ciddi
Coca-Cola
Cüneytçiğim, bak da Kilyostaki günleri hatırla. Arkadaşlarını görünce insan biraz olsun o günleri yaşıyor.
Çalışma masanın etrafındaki grup 
Çalışma masanın üstünde
Çalışma masası
Çalışma masasında bayraklar
Çelenk
Çelloda kadın
Çene kaldırmak
Çeşme
Çıngırak
Çift
Çite doğru eğilmek 
Çizgiler içinde
Çizgili
Çocukla ilgili 
Çocuklar için mobilya
Çok genç 
Davul çalmak 
Denizde
Denizle grup 
Denizli manzara
Desen üstüne desen 
Desen yapmak 
Dışarıda iç çamaşırıyla
Die besten Wünsche von Yalçın und Erol [Yalçın ve Erol’un iyi dilekleriyle]
Diğerini daha çok beğeniyorum 
Dik oturmak ve dilenmek
Dizler üstüne dizler
Doğaya güvenmek
Dört tane çalışma masanın üstünde
Duvar kağıdının üstünde yansıma
Düğün
Eğilimli
Ekim 62
El ele
El kapanın üstünde
Elbiseni esnetmk
Eller havada
Eller havada
Eller kalçada
En üstte papağan
Esmek
Eşini göstermek
Eşyalarıyla el sallamak
Evcilleştirilmiş doğa 
Farklı bir zamanda
Farklı melek
Favori
Foto Fehmi Aksaray İstanbul
Foto Hayri Güven, Beyazıt Vezneciler 40/20 Istanbul, Tel. 27 49 32
Foto Şark, Hasan Karişman, Aksaray, Lâleli Saray Pasajı 32, Telefon: 27 26 83
Fotoğraf üstünde fotoğraf
Fotoğraf üstüne fotoğraf
Fotoğrafı çekilmiş enstrümanlar
Fotoğraftan eğilerek çıkmak
Gazino gecesi
Gecede
Gecede ışıklar
Gelini alıştırmak
Geriye bakmak
Göbek deliğinin üstünde pantalon
Görçek Beyoğlu
Görünmez bir şeyi tutmak 
Görünüşünde
Göstermek
Gururlu
Güvercinlerin arasında
H. Obüs
Hamile
Hangisi  daha önemli ?
Harabeler
Hava atmak 
Havalı
Hayal gibi 
Haydi!
Emretmek
Hayvanlara benziyor
Her biri kendi içinde
Her zaman olmak istemek
Herşey yatağın üstünde
Heyecan
Işıklar
İç mekân
İhtiyaca göre kucaklamak
İki kadın
İki tane bebek manken
İki tekerlekli arabalı adamlar
İkisi birini öperken
İlgilenmemek
İnsanlar ve anıtlar
İnsanlar ve hayvanlar
İnsanlar ve kültürel miras
İpeksi
İstememek
İstenilenden daha çok 
İyi gözükmek
Kafa üstünde çene
Kafası fotoğrafta
Kafasız
Kafasız göbek
Kapının önünde
Kaplanmış
Kaplanmış botlar
Kaşlar yukarıda
Kaydırak
Kelebek
Kesilmiş ağaçlar
Kılıç
Kızkardeşler
Kiliseler
Kime baktığını biliyorum
Kişisel çıkar
Kol kola girmiş
Koltukaltı
Koltukta
Komik değil
Komik şaka
Kontrol etmek 
Kordonun önünde
Korunan oğul
Kostüm
Köpeğe sarılmak 
Köpeği tutmak
Kravat ve yaka
Kurabiyelerin arkasında
Kurdele
Kuşları tutmak
Kültürel mirasın önünde insanlar
Küstahça sırıtma
Luca
Lunapark
Makyaj 
Manzara
Manzarada iki tane
Manzarada insanlar
Manzarayı çalmak
Masadaki çift
Masanın üstünde
Melih Özemek
Merdivenlerdeki grup 
Mimarinin önünde
Miyop
Müzik
Müzik
Müzisyenler
Ne için?
Nehirli şehir
Nehrin üstünde
Oğlun etrafı sarılmış 
Oğul
Oğul ve Atatürk
Okul sınıfı 
Okul üniforması
Olmayı denemek
Ortada oğul 
Otobüsler arasında
Otostop çekmek
Oyun oynayan kadınlar
Oyun parkında
Önceki diz
Papağan
Para
Parmakları iç içe geçirmek 
Pasajlar
Pasaport fotoğrafı
Perdenin önünde
Photo-City Düsseldorf
Pikap
Plaj sahnesi 
Plakları çalmak 
Rakı
Reisebüro Türkei [Türkiye Seyahat Acentesi]
Ruffles
Ruj
Rüzgara karşı eğilmek 
Rüzgarın saça doğru esmesi
Saf mutluluk 
Sahnede hayalet
Sapan
Sarhoş gibi davranmak 
Sarılmış bebek
Sepetler
Sermek
Sevgili dayıma ve yengeme, 23 Nisan, eferi elimizi öpmeye geldi. Cem Tekyüz
Sırayla
Sırıtmak
Siyah beyaz
Sokakta satmak
Sol taraf fenomeni 
Stüdyo
Sudan korkan 
Suratın önünde bir şey
Süslemeler
Süslenmiş kaldırım
Şarkı söylemek 
Şato
Şu haline bak
Taksi
Tanımlanmamış manzara
Taş plaj
Taş plaj 
Taşlar
Televizyonlu kış
Terasta
Top oynamak
Türk bayrağı
Türk bayrağının önünde
Türker Özdoğan
Utangaç 
Üç erkek
Üç erkek bir kadın 
Üstte aslan 
Vitrinde Noel Baba
Vurulmak
Yalnız müzik 
Yalnız uyumak 
Yansıma
Yemek yemek
Yerde oynamak
Yerinden edilmiş hissetmek
Yukarı bakmak 
Yukarı sağ
Yüksek bel etek 
Yüksek binalar
Yüzünü göstermek 
Zeki Özgöneç
Zum Wochenende einen Strauß für zu Haus? [Hafta sonu için eve buket getirmek?]
Zur Erinnerung an die schöne Zeit in München, Yalçin, Eva u. Klein-Erol [Münih’te geçirdiğimiz güzel zamanın anısına, Yalçın, Eva ve küçük-Erol ]

F71 

08.02 [2002]
09’80 [1980]
09’94 [1994]
09/97 [1997]
1. Klassenfahrt in Kladow auf der Pfauninsel [First school trip to Kladow/Pfauninsel]
1/1
1/93 [1993]
10/89 [1989]
12.96 [1996]
28.8.78
28.8.78 Nachfeier (?) [Afterparty]
3’85 [1985]
3/95 [1995]
4.10.70
4/95 [1995]
7’86 [1968]
8/95 [1995]
9/93 [1993]
9/94 [1994]
A circle of chairs
Arms of women, arms of men
Around the table
As Chinese
Aug 81 [1981]
Aug 82 [1982]
Aug. 1979
Baby-pink and Baby-blue
Ballet Shoe
Bathing suit
Being watched unnoticed
Beloved
Berlin 4.6.90
Between the blossoms
Between the curtains
Braids
Buffet
Buffet with bouquet
Bulked up
Bunk bed
Cactus
Candy
Candy cone
Carnival
Carpet
Casting a shadow
Castle
Choosing labour
Christmas
Christmas tree
Christmas tree balls
City and nature
Closed knees
Color Nacht Express [“Color night express”]
Contro il terrorismo – per il pace [against the terrorism – for peace]
Crucifix
Crystal glass
Curtain on wallpaper
Daughter
David Dresden
Deer
Democrazia Proletaria [Democracy for the people]
Different story
Domesticated nature
Donkey
Electric candles
Embraces
Embracing animals
Fake dream house
Family trip
Father
Feeding a dog
Field
Find the difference
Fir
Flag
Four women, one man
Grapes in decoration
Grilling
Group meeting with floral arrangement
Guten Morgen Farbbilder OKT 85 [„good morning color pictures“ oct. 1985]
Hair
Hamburger
Hand
Hand in between
Hand in front of face 
Hand in front of someone else’s face
Hands of women, hands of men
Handshaking
Headband
Hidden things
Holding hands
Holes between the buttons
I would like to die for your wealth
If I would be somewhere else
Imagination
In aluminum
In front of the house
In Red
In the background
In the garden 
In the sea
In the shower
In the train
Interior
Italy
Jalousie
Jump
Juni 82 [June 1982]
Kinder garden
Lametta
Leaning
Lederhosen
M. & C.
Mai 80 [May 1980]
Mass praying
Men in grey suits
Men in suits
Miniature
Mother
Mother, father, daughter
Move
Munich
Mustache
Nature over Nature
NEG. NR. 23
Not on first sight
Not wanted to be taken
Not wanting
Nov. 76 [1976]
Okt. 1979
Old Railway
On top
One away
One likes what the other doesn’t
One man, four women
One man, two women
One shadow missing
Palm trees
Pattern
Pattern over pattern
Pattern over pattern
Piazza
Picnic
Pippi Langstrumpf
Placed on a carpet
Playing the guitar
Polaroid
Poodle
Pope
Praying
Pretending to be
Rather being alone
River
Same, same but different
Santa Claus
Scholl gym
Scratches
Sea salt in your eyes
Shadow missing
Shadow of beloved one
Shadow with beloved one
Skin
Smile
Smiling or not smiling
Smoking
Snow on mountains
Standing on the carpet
Stine house
Straddle
Straddle-legged
Sun glasses
Taking a video in a photo
The struggle for housing
Through the tube
To draw
To guess the photographer
Tunnel
Twins
Two in one
Two women, one man
View
Wall clock
Wallpaper
What the other wants
Where to look?
Windmill
With a finger
With dog
With flowers
With stuffed animal
Women around the table
Women in the background
Wooden door
Wooden wall
Zur Erinnerung an den Urlaub im Juni 84 [in memory of the holidays in june 84]

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F 20

1930
Accordion
Accordion player
Among themselves
Angels
Anglers
Angling
Aragon
Arrangement
At low tide
Bare breasted
Beauty of the worm’s-eye-view
Behind bars
Benjamin
Between the leaves
Between the trees
Birch tree
Black and white
Blasphemy
Blossom
Boundaries
Bouquet
Bouquet in the way
Breathtaking
Bridge
Broken
Broker’s row
Brothers
Brothers and non-brothers
Brushing the chin
Bunker
Burst out of excitement
Camel
Cargo boot
Castle Garden
Child and animal
Childhood-love
Christmas
Christmas joy
Christmas tree
Church tower
Church window
Circular stairs
Complex anglings
Crucifix
Cycling marathon
Dam
Dance
Dear Sirs
Details in bathing
Die Stille hütet uns [The silence protects us]
Different thoughts
Domesticated nature
Domesticated nature
Doubting grin
Drawing on photograph
Dried-up
Dune
Empty plates
Exchanging presents
Favorite
Favorite
Feeding a goose
Feeding animals
Fir tree
Fisher
Fishing
Fishing nets
Flags
Flags above masses
Football
Forcing the neck
Front and back
Fun
Game or reality?
Garb
German small-town
Giving and taking
Graveyards
Group in good position
Hairline on waistband
Hand and paw
Hand shake
Hands doing their best
Happiness
Happy
Harbor architecture
Heart in hands
Holding different meanings
Holding the Veil
Honor
Hot-air balloon
House construction
Houses on water
Human over animal
Hunting group
Hunting march
I don’t know if I like
I met you somewhere else in this world
I want to be you
In front of church
In front of doors
In front of gates
In love with the photographer
In move
In the forest
In the shade
Into the sun
Iron construction
Jacket and short
King and queen
Kisses in front of cameras
Lametta
Limits in the sea
Llama
Loading cargo
Looking down
Man and woman
Managed!
Mass-prayer
Melancholy
Men groups
Monkey
Mosaic
Mountains
Mountains in the back
Nacht, Schlaf und Traum [night, sleep and dream]
Not on the first sight
Not so funny
Not sure yet
Old lift bridge
One
Painting on photography
Park Etterem
Photographed music
Photographed shop-windows
Picture in picture
Picture on picture
Pictured women
Playing the professional
Pondering
Primeval grimace
Professional title
Proud in fashion
Really?
Relationships to one another
Remarkable architecture
Remarkable display
Resting
Resting on shoulder
Ribbon rails
River
Robe
Sad animal
Sailor
Same smile three times
School-group
Serious matters
Shadow
Shopping
Shopping street
Sitting in front of the Christmas tree
Sitting in the snow
Sitting on benches
Snow
Sports Club
Steamship
Stork
Striped
Swan
Table-décor
Taking a photograph
Taking off
Tarn
That smile
The coldest
The funny ones
The shy ones
To draw
Together in the sun
Touching the neck
Triplets
Trust
Trying the wedding dress
Uniform
Unwanted kiss
Unwrapping presents
Veiled
Waiting crowd
Waiting on desk
Walking and a fountain
Wall-painting
Warning label
Watch tower
Water
Water-mirror
White on head
Who is who
Who knees and who stands
Windmill
With expectation
Woken up

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D3_12

16/16
16/19
16/23
16/24
180/16
182/11
1970
21/22
21/26
21/27
21/28
21/30
47/34
49/9
abgestimmt
adaptieren
am wasser
arme
auf dem wasser
auf der terasse
aus dem fenster
D3
D3_12
eis
falsche farben
farbspiel
favorit
gleiten
gruppe
haende
haende halten
in pose werfen
installation
korbstuehle
meer
muster
ordentlich
oslo-kiel
schiff
schnee
segelboot
spiegelung
steif stehen
ungewollt
wasser
zauberei
zwei frauen – ein mann
zweidimensional

 

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F48

03.09.1961
15.09.1966
18.12.1961
18.12.61 weihnachtsfeier
1960
1961
1966
24.12.1960
3.9.61 am dümmer see
adaptieren
am tisch
anfassen
angeordnet
arme
barbara
barbaras 1. geburtstag
deutschland
dezember
dieser blick
drei frauen – ein mann
drei frauen drei maenner
dümmer see
ein mann – zwei kinder
erster geburtstag
f48
favorit
festlichkeit
fluegel
foto-hergeron bielefeld
fuenf frauen
geburtstag
gleich
gruppe
gruppe am tisch
gruppe im tanz
gruppenaufstellung
herbst
hinter der tuer
installation
interieur
kein laecheln
kratzen
kronleuchter
kurzhaarschnitt
mercedes
mund verschieben
musizieren
renate
schatten
schwarzes kleid
september
singen
stehen
steif stehen
tannen
tanzen
vor der tuer
weihnachten
wiese
wind steichelt
winter
witz
zwei frauen
zweidimensional

 

 

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A146

01 tomiko
1969
A146
abgestimmt
adaptieren
am tisch
arme
auf dem königssee
auf dem wasser
auf der terasse
auf hannchens balkon
balkon
beine
cinzano
dackel
deutschland
die vier schwestern maaß
dirndl
dorothea scharf
drei frauen
eine frau – drei kinder
eine frau – zwei kinder
familie v. d. goltz
familiengruppe
favorit
fehl am platz
gabriele scharf
getarnt
gruppe am tisch
haaransatz
haarschleife
haende
haende halten
haende zueinander
hannchen
hannchens wohnung im paterre
hinter der wiese
hund
hut
in der hand halten
in niendorf, sommer 1969
installation
kaffee trinken
käthchen
käthchen dienstbier
kirche
klosterkirche in seeon
königssee
kopftuch
lächeln
mensch und tier
mit familie scharf im café
nanne meyer 2012
paterre
reinhild scharf
rosel lausemis
rosel scharf
rosel scharf, geb. lausemis mit ihren 3 töchtern reinhild, gabriele, dorothea
scharf
schiff
schöller eiskrem
schultern hochziehen
schwestern
sechs frauen – zwei maenner
seeon
sinnenschrim
sommer
sommerreise
sommerreise 1969 mit meiner schwester nite und kusine christel stukowski
ungewollt
vier frauen
vier frauen – zwei maenner
viezemutter käthchen dienstbier
vor dem haus
waescheleine
wiese
zwei frauen
zwei frauen – ein mann – zwei kinder

 

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F54_02

∞ F54_59
01 tomiko
1946
abgestimmt
adaptieren
anzug
auf den zweiten blick
ausblick
beine
berge
brille
buecken
buecken
F54_2
farbspiel
favorit
fehler
felsen
fuenf frauen – ein mann– ein kind
fuenf maenner
getarnt
gruppe
gruppe am meer
gruppe am tisch
gruppe in der ecke
gruppe in der natur
haarschleife
haende
haende zueinander
heu
hut
im hintergrund
in der natur
in pose werfen
installation
kadikoy
kopftuch
kravatte
maennergruppe
mantel ueber arm
muster
pavillon
pferd
schiff
schmunzeln
schuhsole
sechs frauen – drei kinder
sein
sieben frauen – ein kind
sommer
sommer
sonnenschirm
starren
stirn runzeln
trinken
tuerkei
anzug
vor zug
vorm heuhaufen
warten
wasser
wiese
wind steichelt
wolke
zauberei
zieren
zug
zwei frauen – ein mann
zwei maenner – eine frau 

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D3_01

01 TOMIKO
1982
34/1
34/10
34/12
34/13
34/15
34/2
34/26
34/29
34/3
34/40
34/44
34/5
34/7
am tisch
am tisch
angeordnet
auf den zweiten blick
ausgebaut
ausstand
ausstand mit vertreter
bernd thier
d3
d3_01
dach
dachgeschoss
deutschland
drei frauen drei maenner
ein schoener ruecken
fallschirm
fallschirmspringer
favorit
geometrisch
gruppe am tisch
gut aussehen
haende zueinander
hinterm zaun
interieur
kies
klatschen
kopftuch
lauschen
laut lachen
mensch und tier
muster
platte
reh
schmunzeln
schunkeln
sechs frauen fuenf maenner
spielplatz
tanzen
ueberrschung
vogel
vorm zaun
wiese
wildpark klaushof
zwei kinder

 

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 A44

 „o, die steine!!!“
 ∞ A40
 ∞ A41
 ∞ A42
 ∞ A43
 ∞ A45
 ∞ A46
 ∞ A47
 ∞ F22
 11. februar 1956
 11.02.1956
 1956
 1957
 26.09.1956
 abgestimmt
 adaptieren
 am fenster
 am starnberger see
 am tisch
 am wasser
 angsthase
 arme
 auf dem berg
 auf der alm
 auf der bank
 auf der treppe
 august
 bademantel
 beobachten
 bernd thier 2009
 der schulmeister
 deutschland
 dieser blick
 doppelhut
 doppelt
 dreizehnter geburtstag
 droben auf der alm
 essen
 favorit
 ferien 1961
 geburtstag
 getarnt
 haende
 hände in die hüfte
 hans peterle
 hans peterle „der angsthase“
 hauseingang
 herbst
 hinterhof
 hinterm zaun
 in der natur
 in der sonne
 ist‘s auch nicht zu kalt?
 kein laecheln
 kippen
 mohna
 muster
 neues auto
 planschen
 rind
 schief stellen
 schnaps
 see
 segelboot
 september
 sommer
 spionieren
 starnberger-see
 topfplanze
 treppe
 tür aufhalten
 unter einem sonnenschirm
 unterm sonnenschirm
 verdecken
 vom balkon der neue „mercedes“ august 1957.
 vor dem haus
 wackeln
 wallberg-drahtseilbahn
 winken
 zauberei
 zaubern
 zeigefinger
 zusammenspiel
 zwei frauen – ein kind
 zwei frauen – ein mann
 zweidimensional