![]() ![]() The Falcon 9 was launched April 18 and tasked with ![]() The landing was notable as the Falcon 9 featured retractable landing legs and the ability to perform a powered descent after carrying supplies to the International Space Station via the Dragon capsule. SpaceX completed a controlled landing of its Falcon 9 space rocket in the Atlantic Ocean after it delivered supplies to the International Space Station this week, company CEO Elon Musk said, though the rocket may not be recovered after touching down in rough seas. However, you can observe that the woman usually appears smaller in the frame, either because the man loses interest, she doesn’t want to be photographed or due to the fact that he’s more interested in the surrounding landscape.” The couple are together, alone again because the kids have gone to university or left home. What else is there to photograph?”Īs for the fourth, the fifth, the sixth and the seventh albums, he says: “They’re a complete mix of everything more new children, holidays, important occasions etc, so it’s total chaos, with blank pages and all.”Īnd in the eighth? “The eighth is comparable to the first. When there are no children and no dogs, they opt for the car. When people can’t have children then they focus their album on other things such as dogs. The fresh parents just can’t show it off enough. The third one is usually totally dedicated to and fanatical about the first-born child. You see this phenomenon all over the world, in all kinds of countries. “The second album that was made is mostly related to the marriage. You can tell he considers her an adorable, desired object. Even his girlfriend’s name is written in large lettering. For instance, in, the man is taking close ups of her excessively. It was them who had the machine around their neck. Noting how analogue family photography was a largely engendered pursuit, he adds: “It was mostly men taking pictures of their partners. The first is always when a couple meet each other, they’re in love and they go on holiday etc.” “For instance, people make mostly on average 7 or 8 albums during their lifetime. “I am very interested in the certain typologies that you might find within albums,” Kessels explains via telephone from his office, a converted church in the heart of Amsterdam. In a sense then, it’s a form of archaeology that lists the detritus of beauty, boredom, travel, companionship, innocence, youth, pride and participation. While there are no critically important pictures here they are nonetheless glorious in their dullness. Yet beyond the nostalgic pleasure drawn from these pre-digital images, Album Beauty achieves a certain gravitas through the glimpses it offers into the human condition. Kessels’ curatorial practice is one of constant carnival. There are also interactive albums to leaf through, life-size photo props that visitors can put their face into, and photographs printed on carpets that visitors walk over. Images are blown up to epic size and displayed as wallpaper, while others are shown in their original format. ![]() Presented as an installation, the experience of Album Beauty is akin to walking through a physical photo album. “It’s extraordinary to think that photo albums have only been in existence for roughly one hundred years, and now they are virtually dead,” Kessels says. Comprising found and anonymous family photographs, it is the result of nearly 15 years spent rummaging through flea markets and second-hand stores across the globe. Currently on display at Les Rencontres d’Arles in France, it is an ode to the lost world of the photo album, that container of family history and personal narratives. There’s been no shortage of reflections on how we are living in a time when once-familiar objects are disappearing rapidly from our lives yet Kessels’ exhibition, Album Beauty, provides a thought-provoking meditation on the nature of obsolescence. The function of a photograph has shifted completely.” We don’t even have them in albums any more. “We used to be the designers of our photo memories, not just someone who makes a slideshow on a computer. “Family or personal photographs are now taken to be shared with everybody whereas in the era of photo albums they used to be much more private.” So explains Dutch curator and editor Erik Kessels, otherwise known for his work at the legendary and unorthodox advertising agency, KesselsKramer. ![]()
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