Zes foto's van vrienden van Loentje Onnen bij tenniswedstrijden en met fietsen by Carolina (Loentje) Frederika Onnen

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

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print, photography, albumen-print

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portrait

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pictorialism

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print

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photography

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group-portraits

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genre-painting

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albumen-print

Dimensions: height 203 mm, width 253 mm

Copyright: Rijks Museum: Open Domain

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.

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