Kantine in het 'Stijgerend Paard' 1948 - 1949

This album page, "Kantine in het 'Stijgerend Paard'," is a collection of mounted photographs, likely snapshots from a personal collection. The photographer captures these buildings in soft shades of gray, their surfaces gently worn, evoking a sense of nostalgia. There's a directness in the way the images are captured, a sense of immediacy and a lack of pretension. Look at the way the album page is arranged, a grid-like pattern that almost feels like a sketchbook page. The arrangement itself becomes a form of mark-making, a way of organizing memories and experiences into a visual narrative. The choice of this album format as a backdrop is also interesting. It feels humble and homemade. The images feel like echoes of a past time, whispering stories of lives lived. And isn’t that what art is all about? Finding beauty in the everyday, in the forgotten corners of our lives. I can almost hear the voices and smell the food. This makes me think of how Gerhard Richter also used photographs as source material, often blurring the images to create a sense of distance and ambiguity.