"Before Van der Elsken's lens, the spirit is that of movement, interest, uncertainty. The girls and boys in Moineau's seem oblivious of anybody but themselves; their peers seem to await a response, to offer themselves to a future they do mot expect to make, to a history already judging them as deviants, anomalies, curios…The people in Moineau's seem to be having fun." Marcus, Greil (1989), Lipstick traces: A secret history of the twentieth century, Harvard University Press, pp. 352, 354, ISBN978-0-674-53581-7
The GKf is a photographers association that was founded in 1945 by Cas Oorthuys, Emmy Andriesse, Eva Besnyö and Carel Blazer [nl]. Other prominent photographers soon joined, all of whom played an important role in the resistance movement during the war. What united these photographers was not only their artistic vision, but a mutual social engagement
