Serie van foto's waarop een man een kegel van het hoofd van iemand anders optilt, bedoelt voor een cinematograaf before 1908

This series of photographs showing a man lifting a cone from another man's head, was produced for cinematography purposes at an unknown date by an anonymous artist. The images are stark black and white, they're arranged like a storyboard, little windows into a fleeting moment. You can almost feel the jerky, stop-motion quality of early film. I love the way the artist has captured a simple action, breaking it down into these tiny, fragmented frames. It reminds me that even the most mundane things, like lifting a cone, can become fascinating when viewed as a process. There’s a tactile quality to these photographs; you can almost feel the grain of the paper, the contrast between light and shadow. Each frame is a little world, a single gesture isolated in time, its impact magnified in repetition. It points to the way that meaning is generated through repetition and variation. This seriality resonates with the later work of artists like Gerhard Richter, who also explored the effects of repetition and seriality in his paintings. Ultimately, this series of photographs reminds us that art is a conversation, a dialogue between artists across time and media, constantly reimagining and reinterpreting the world around us.