SP w8 the clouds during war

I went to an opening of an exhibition in the photo museum in Rotterdam.

The name of the expo is "strong stories" and the photos are from the extensive archive. For me, one of the exhibitions stood out, that of Frits Lamberts made during the 1943-1945 war. He was then still an amateur and used a Leica camera from a deceased friend.

Photographing German soldiers and scaffolding was prohibited at that time and the last year was not allowed to be photographed at all. The photos that are being exhibited by Lamberts are photos of the sky over the Netherlands and in particular the condensation traces of the allied bombers of the Allies. These abstarct spores may have given hope. Lamberts noted which squadron and sometimes also the bombing involved.

This part of the collection has been digitized and therefore you can find the photos online complete with the sometimes extensive descriptions.

http://collectie.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/collectie/?mode=gallery&view=horizontal&sort=order_i_relevantie%20asc&q=lamberts&page=1&reverse=0

What also strikes me are the patterns. Earlier I wrote a post about chemtrails that left airplanes behind and the movie I watched before said it didn't last for more than a minute in earlier years. I see in one of the captions that it concerns 20 planes and the stripes are all one way, but what about the photo where a grid can be seen?

Knowing that these photos were taken in wartime, you immediately imagine that the planes caused it. The stripes next to each other that symbolize the immensity and organized attack while the less strong lines symbolize chaos. Without seeing the actual bombing, the impact, at least on me, is huge.

It reminds me of an exhibition that I saw years ago in which we heard the sounds of a plane crash above the Bijlmer in Amsterdam 1992 in the Netherlands and that everyone saw images there while there were no images at all.- Something that we can no longer imagine today that something is happening where there are no images.-

And the story of friend who recorded the birth of his son by focusing the filmcamera outside the room on daily life outside (through the hospital window) while only hearing the sounds in the room.

Our visual memory is so large that we can think of things, see things, that are not there. That is a strange realization and something to definitely take with you to do something with it later. Although I have been to an exhibition of people who graduated as a photographer where someone had taken it very literally. The exhibition consisted of 10 descriptions of a photo "there is a chair, there is someone on it with long hair looking out through the window that is present on the left in the room". Am I very traditional when I think that someone who becomes a bachelor photographer should really convince me by showing images? I wouldn't have had a problem with this concept if it had been a final art student.