Zes foto's van vrienden van Loentje Onnen bij tenniswedstrijden en met fietsen Possibly 1910 - 1916

These six photographs of Loentje Onnen’s friends, with tennis matches and bicycles, feel like they were captured in a moment, spontaneously, with a box camera. The sepia tones create a dreamy haze, inviting us into Loentje’s world. Look at the surface of the photograph, with its warm, muted palette. The images are softly focused, which evokes a sense of nostalgia. The emulsion of the image feels thin and fragile, capturing a sliver of lived time. It's like she’s piecing together a puzzle of memory, each photo a fragment of her social life. I love the handwritten dates below each image, like personal annotations. The composition reminds me of the work of early 20th-century photographers like Jacques Henri Lartigue, who captured fleeting moments of everyday life with a similar sense of spontaneity. What I take from these photographs is that the best art captures a feeling, a glimpse of a moment.