In the photo work by Peter de Kan (1957) realities are united. He himself describes it as follows:

Twice behind me the roaring of traffic, above everything an accelerating truck,

seeing a shadow falls on a piece of paper (inaudible), someone bites into an icecup,

then a tram, previously rattling in the rails, then sirens of the police?firebrigade? brandweer?

a pen scratches on a piece of paper (inaudible), the continuing sound of a

ambulance? in front of me the grinding of a shovel in a stack of gravel or coarse sand, to the right

the drill, the sound of a bird, the sound of walking, a voice, a question,

the sound of a stationary working concrete mixer, turning out to be the man walking by with a

a looking at sound (inaudible), a helpless gesture sound (in-

lawn mower, the bell os a tram bell, footsteps, talking: a mother's voice, a son's voice.

audible) a please give me a cigarette sound, a bugger off sound, a new

mother's voice, son's voice, footsteps (mother's footsteps), sparrows chirping, again

estate sound, a driving sound, a stopping sound, a dog's sound, a renovation sound, the

footsteps from right to left, the sparrows, the bell, from a different direction now and

sound, coming from that large square, from an old woman behind a stand, the sound

again, farther away, a whistle, squeaking brakes, a

of the bubbles in the soda water, the sound of when she quickly with her hand