Bedrijfsgebouw Pasir-Malang 1936

This black and white photograph of Bedrijfsgebouw Pasir-Malang is housed in an album in the Rijksmuseum. The photographer may be anonymous, but I really sympathise with their intent here. The building has been framed in such a way as to be monumental, but also approachable. I wonder what the photographer thought about the building, what conversations it had with other architecture of the time? I'm interested in the stark contrast between light and dark in this image. The building itself is a study in lines and angles, which brings to mind a conversation with cubism. How shapes interact with light and how light interacts with shapes. I also imagine that the photographer perhaps saw this building in relation to other buildings; as a structure which offered a new way of thinking about the use of space. Photographers, like painters, are in an ongoing dialogue and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring each other's creativity.