Landschap met een zitbank before 1902

This photograph, "Landschap met een zitbank" by Ph. et E. Link, is printed in a book, maybe from the early 20th century. It captures a landscape with a bench, using tones of grey that feel both ghostly and direct. It's like the beginning of an idea, a sketch in light and shadow, still somehow open-ended. The bench, just sitting there by the water, it's almost comical. It implies a narrative, a waiting, or maybe just a quiet moment in time. I'm drawn to the way the light interacts with the trees, they're not sharp, but soft, like a memory. The book print gives it a kind of historical weight; the texture of the paper itself becomes part of the image. It's not about perfection, but about a feeling, an evocation of a place. It puts me in mind of Caspar David Friedrich, who also thought about nature, or perhaps Eugène Atget, thinking about photography as a document. Ultimately though it is a quiet meditation on light, landscape and time.