Anachronisms
What has been left in our modern time of the world our forefathers were living in? What has happened to the love-letter that regularly occurs on the paintings of the famous Dutch painters Vermeer and Terborgh? The portraits of the initial stage of photography are singular, because the entire early photography was singular.
dated 2001 until 2001
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The Letter
2001Where are the love letters women wrote and read in bygone times? The ones that were held together with a lace ribbon and kept in a drawer. Everything has to be fast these days, by e-mail or mobile phone, and personal messages are rarely saved for long.
Lost by a soldier
2001"Lost by a soldier" Or perhaps not a lost but a discarded beloved? Discovered somewhere by the roadside, thumbed, folded and torn….
The Orphan Girl
2001In the early days of photography, people used to adopt a pose when a portrait was made. Whether the sitter belonged to high society or came from a working class background: they knew that something very special was happening.
Pin up
2001Photography had barely been invented and women (and men, of course) exposed themselves for erotic pictures