Norbert van den Berg met een gezelschap bij een graf in Westerveld en op Schiphol 1967

This is "Norbert van den Berg met een gezelschap bij een graf in Westerveld en op Schiphol" by Willem Jacob van den Berg, we don't know exactly when it was made but the writing on the page gives us a clue: Juli 1967. It seems to be two family photographs mounted on a page in a photo album. Van den Berg worked across several media, he was a painter, graphic artist, and photographer and he approaches photography with a painterly eye. The grain of the film is quite visible and the colours are strong, even saturated, with the greens of the trees and blue of the sky popping out. The texture of the paper is visible and the photographs have a nice soft, slightly faded look. This gives the whole piece a sense of intimacy and nostalgia, like looking through someone's old family album. The composition of each photograph seems casual and unstudied. One photograph shows a group standing in a cemetery. The other, a group seated on a balcony at Schiphol Airport. It's interesting how the artist juxtaposes these two very different settings: one of mourning and remembrance, the other of travel and adventure. In a way, this piece reminds me of Gerhard Richter's "Atlas" project, which also uses found photographs to create a kind of visual archive. Art's like a conversation.