Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Trigger Shutter Photo Finger

1936
1936


A woman after my own heart.

1938
1938


In Almost Every Picture #7 is a biography of one woman's life from an unusual perspective, one which allows us to witness the times she lived in, as well as acting as a revealing look at the changing face of photography through the decades.

1949
1949


It tells the story of a Dutch woman whose life is seen from the point of view of a fairground shooting gallery.

1954
1954


The chronological series begins in 1936, when a 16-year-old girl from Tilburg in Holland picks up a gun and shoots at the target in a shooting gallery.

1965
1965

1967
1967


Every time she hits the target, it triggers the shutter of a camera and a portrait of the girl in firing pose is taken and given as a prize.

1973
1973

1978
1978


And so a lifelong love affair with the shooting gallery begins.

1987
1987

1989
1989


This series documents almost every year of the woman's life (there is a conspicuous pause from 1939 to 1945) up until present times.

1998
1998

2006
2006


At the age of 88 Ria van Dijk still makes her pilgrimage to the Shooting Gallery.

2009
2009

1 comment:

Mom and Dad said...

where the heck do you find this stuff..