Isabel Wachenheimer gezeten in een stoel en werkend aan een tafel 1933 - 1940

This small black and white photograph, which is titled ‘Isabel Wachenheimer gezeten in een stoel en werkend aan een tafel,’ captures Isabel sitting at a table and working. We don't know who made it. I find myself wondering about the blurred details, the soft focus, and the play of light and shadow. What kind of work is she doing? Is she writing a letter, lost in thought, or perhaps composing a piece of music? I imagine the photographer, capturing a quiet, personal moment. They frame Isabel, who sits in a room filled with shadows and sunlight, working with intense focus. The window behind her brings the outside world in, a dance of nature and the interior. What sort of person has held and kept this photo? What has she been writing and what has been her life? The act of photography, like painting, is a conversation between the seer and the seen.