Eisenhower in Den Haag 1945

This is a page from a photo album, an anonymous work featuring the city of Den Haag and Eisenhower, made in 1945. It’s amazing, because the whole thing is about process. The way the different sized photos have been attached, leaving just the right amount of space between each one, tells a story. The textures of this album are super evocative; the way these black and white photos sit on the grey page is so poignant. In the top left there’s a car with a star painted on its side. It's the casualness with which this has been captured, the way the image seems like a snapshot in time, that’s so telling, and so incredibly powerful. I'm reminded of Gerhard Richter's Atlas project, with its grids of photographs. Both tell a story about the world using found images, allowing for ambiguity and multiple interpretations.