Vijf foto's van de familie Onnen met vrienden, Hilversum Possibly 1909 - 1912

Loentje Onnen’s "Five Photos of the Onnen Family with Friends, Hilversum" is a personal family archive. It consists of images and photographs held in the brown paper of a scrapbook. I like to think about the life of the artist at the time of making this work, in December 1909 and January 1910. I can imagine her pasting these photographic images in the album with a brush and glue, thinking about where each of the images would fit on the page. I can imagine her showing the album to family and friends, creating a shared memory of the events recorded in each of the images. There is intimacy to the images which give a strong sense of her family life. She reminds me a little of the photographer Nan Goldin, whose images create a collective memory of her extended chosen family. Isn't it amazing how artists are in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity?