Onvoltooid Verleden I

Family-album photographs made by residents of Geldrop in the 1950s and 1960s show domestic and community life: a proud family beside a small car, a butcher posing for the camera, a woman watching the street from a window, and men overlooking an elderly woman taking aim at a shooting festival. Hannes Wallrafen selected about twenty-five images and removed them from their original album contexts, placing them in a new sequence for the first part of a five-year photography project organized by Stichting Geldrop Cultureel. Johan de Vos contributes a short text for each photograph. His close observations draw attention to incidental gestures and details, treating photographs as time machines while questioning the apparent reality and period-specific immediacy of the scenes. The book includes both black-and-white and colour photographs.