Klappercultuur c. 1930s

This photographic artwork, ‘Klappercultuur,’ is an anonymous piece, an arrangement of black and white photos that feels like a study in light and form. Each image is a dance of tones, a process, if you will, where the greys create their own shapes. There's a kind of starkness in the contrasts that give it a very particular feel, a boldness. The textures—the grainy film, the rough edges of the images—add to this sense of immediacy. It reminds me of raw canvas, an untouched potential, the surface is almost like the surface of the coconuts themselves. Think of the way the photographer has framed the pictures, it is more than an exercise in documenting something. This piece is evocative like the works of László Moholy-Nagy who also saw the world through the eye of a lens. The eye, the moment and an ongoing dialogue.