Box Cameras ---Gunter Grass

The latest book by German Nobel Prize winner Gunter Grass is called The Box: Tales from the Darkroom.   The box in question is a magic box camera.   In 1932, studying the success of the Kodak Brownie, Agfa introduced its model 44.  It sold for four marks.  The coins of the day were stamped with letters indicating the mint of their origins and Agfa marketers urged customers to search for coins marked A, G, F, and A and turn them in for a camera.   Agfa supposedly lost money on this camera—a people’s camera, introduced just a few years before Hitler’s  people’s car and people’s radio—but made up for it with the sales of film. The author photo shows Grass with two old cameras.  One looks like the 1932 model an done that  is form later, with  looking like many Brownie  variants with a face of three circles, like a Mickey Mouse face, the large circle of the lens and the two smaller circles of the viewers—the “ears” above the “face.”

 

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