Diverse onderwerpen 1939

Here we have a curious collection of photos, of unknown date and origin, compiled in what looks like a personal album. When I look at these kinds of images, I think about all the decisions involved in both the making and collecting of them. Someone has traveled and then chosen to record their experience of the world. They've developed the photos, cropped them, and then thoughtfully arranged them on the page. I wonder about the person doing this act of documentation and curation, and what significance it had to them at the time? Is the artist looking back at the images now, or is it just us, with a series of new questions? Maybe these little pictures speak to each other in ways we can’t know for sure. I enjoy thinking about how these kinds of works make us pause and consider the nature of images themselves, and how we construct meaning out of them. The dialogue between intention and interpretation keeps the images alive.