After itemizing and cataloguing the images, his son Jans Bock-Schroeder, himself a photographer, has spearheaded the family's efforts to keep his father's legacy alive. Bock-Schroeder By Bock-Schroeder is a unique venture by the late photographer's son and the Peter Bock-Schroeder estate to present this work to the public by framing images captured in the 1930s,'40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s in a modern context.
To do so, Jans took to the streets of Paris with a select number of his father's pictures and re-photographed them in settings that alternately reflect the composition and themes and moods of the originals and in others comment upon them. A phantasmagoric onion domed Russian cathedral constructed many life times before the birth of the television age and photographed by Peter Bock-Schroeder in Moscow in 1956 was taped to the dead screen of a discarded Bang Olufsen TV set that his son found on a sidewalk in the 12th arrondissement in 2011.
Another Kruschev-era image of a mother and her three children posing for a snapshot in front of a Moscow landmark is set on an otherwise barren wall below the word "REPRODUCTION" stenciled in black by a street graffiti artist.
Other such BSBYBS images like one of an indigenous Alaskan woman sitting under a Cold War poster advising civilians how to spot enemy Russian bombers in the skies overhead was re-photographed by Jans who placed it in the middle of a drawing of a 19th-century battlefield strewn with dead bodies that he found on a wall outside a butcher shop, are limned with double and triple layers of irony. Text by Steve Dougherty