Collega's van Isabel tijdens haar periode bij KLM, 1954, Israël 1954

This photo titled 'Collega's van Isabel tijdens haar periode bij KLM, 1954, Israël' was taken in 1954 in Israel by an anonymous photographer. The gelatin silver prints and paperboard of the album page, create a kind of ready made grid. It reminds me that artmaking is always a process of selection and arrangement. The black and white images of the colleagues is a kind of found painting. The slightly wonky angles of the photographs, and the way some of them overlap, gives the album page a dynamic energy, like a collage. I love the contrast between the formality of the subjects and the playful arrangement on the page, it reminds me of artists like Gerhard Richter, or even the diaristic impulses of Nan Goldin. Each photo is a little world in itself, telling a story about work and leisure. Look at the bottom left image, the man relaxing with his shirt off on a sunny day, and the guy in the bottom right working hard at his typewriter! This piece suggests that art is about embracing imperfection and finding beauty in the everyday.