Tuin en straat 1941 - 1942

This is a page from an anonymous photo album, Tuin en straat, which translates to Garden and Street. Isn't it interesting, how someone put these photographs together, juxtaposing street scenes with garden idylls, like so many thoughts or memories clustered together? The grainy black and white images create a kind of intimate distance, like looking through someone else's eyes. I can imagine the artist carefully arranging the images, considering how they speak to each other across time and space. There is a lovely casualness here, in the way the artist combines the garden and street, revealing a sensibility that finds beauty in everyday life, echoing the approach of painters like Bonnard and Vuillard. This photo album is not just a collection of images; it's a personal narrative, a visual poem on the joys of place and memory.