in almost every picture.
barcelona / january 4 / 1940s
barcelona / january 4 / 1940
barcelona / january 18 / 1940
barcelona / february 8 / 1940
barcelona / june 8 / 1940
barcelona / august 17 / 1940
barcelona / august 18 / 1940
madrid / september 9 / 1940
bercelona / september 11 / 1940
barcelona / october 4 / 1940
madrid / october 14 / 1940
madrid / october 17 / 1940
madrid / november 11 / 1940
madrid / november 11 / 1940
barcelona / december 1 / 1940
barcelona / february 5 / 1941
barcelona / march 31 / 1941
barcelona / april 29 / 1941
barcelona / june 12 / 1941
bercelona / august 15 / 1941
barcelona / august 17 / 1941
barcelona / april 25 / 1942
barcelona / may 19 / 1942
barcelona / june 19 / 1942
barcelona / june 19 / 1942
barcelona / june 19 / 1942
barcelona / june 19 / 1942
barcelona / june 19 / 1942
barcelona / july 23 / 1942
barcelona / july 23 / 1942
barcelona / july 23 / 1942
barcelona / july 23 / 1942
barcelona / july 23 / 1942
barcelona / july 23 / 1942
barcelona / july 23 / 1942
barcelona / july 23 / 1942
barcelona / july 23 / 1942
barcelona / july 23 / 1942
barcelona / march 10 / 1943
barcelona / march 12 / 1943
bercelona / march 16 / 1943
barcelona / june 9 / 1943
barcelona / june 9 / 1943
barcelona / july 11 / 1943
barcelona / september 11 / 1943
barcelona / october 10 / 1943
barcelona / november 7 / 1943
barcelona / november 7 / 1943
barcelona / november 7 / 1943
barcelona / january 21 / 1944
barcelona / june 22 / 1944
gibraltar / june 6 / 1946
monju誰c / june 15 / 1946
monju誰c / june 15 / 1946
gibraltar / july 1 / 1946
gibraltar / july 1 / 1946
gibraltar / july 2 / 1946
zarragoza / july 20 / 1946
barcelona / july 28 / 1946
palma de mallorca / may 13 / 1947
la linea / april 15 / 1948
la linea / april 15 / 1948
barcelona / july 25 / 1949
barcelona / september 7 / 1949
Along the promenade, we all look around. To see and to be seen. In between the families, the couples, the
faces, the forms of ourselves, along this exposure of human activity, photographers also look and, in so doing, happen upon two sisters, sororal twins, not identical, but dressed the same, walking arm in arm displaying their relationship. A closeness that is wonderful and made significant both by the girls themselves and by the community around them wherever they go.
The sisters fulfill an unconscious social and cultural expectation. In the time between their appearances
they diligently arrange dresses, coats, belts, shoes, pocket books, hats, scarves, shoes, stockings, gloves, and often hairstyles that are identical. Each image of them has a way of saying, “here they are again, those twins” and “yes,
here we are again, we twins,” as if to comfort all with the consistency of their intimacy and the attempt to make them
more identical than they really are. Nonetheless, they are identical in sharing the same womb both inside their mother and inside their reality. The truth is adjusted by them and by the record of their existence creating new truths that mean something different or something even more as time progresses.
The time is World War II. Not far away from these images of a natural joy, immense tragedy unfolds.The
weight of this time in our history threatens the edges of these photographs, these giggles, these smiles, and intensifies the preciousness found here in almost every picture. A photograph taken to remember, remembers more as the scope of our memory increases.
Despite our best efforts, the tragedy manages to invade the photographs. We see a space left for her, for
the twin sister who is gone. We can only imagine that her absence is due to what was happening, what has happened. The feeling is identical.
A KesselsKramer book. December 2005.
Collected, edited and designed by Erik Kessels. Words by Tyler Whisnand. Thanks to Judith de Bruin.
Published by Artimo/ Gijs Stork, Elandsgracht 8, 1016 TV Amsterdam. info@artimo.net
Distributed by Idea Books (NL) idea@ideabooks.nl and D.A.P. (USA) dap@dapinc.com
Pre-press by Neroc Amsterdam. Printed in an edition of 2,500 copies in Belgium by Die Keure. www.kesselskramer.com / church@kesselskramer.com ISBN 90-8546-063-8
ISBN 90-8546-063-8 ISBN 90-8546-063-8
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