Album Beauty is an ode to the vanishing era of the photo album as told through the collection of Erik Kessels (1966, The Netherlands).
Album Beauty is an ode to the vanishing era of the photo album as told through the collection of Erik Kessels (1966, The Netherlands). Once commonplace in every home, the photo album has been replaced by images that live online and on hard drives. Photo albums were once a repository for family history, often representing a manufactured family, edited for display. The albums speak of birth, death, beauty, sexuality, pride, happiness, youth, competition, exploration,complicity and friendship. Albums are on display in original size as well as larger than life reproductions, giving the viewer the opportunity of walking through numerous personal stories from around the world.
