Brandstofloodsen gezien vanaf den kalkoven in N-O richting. October 1926. 1926
photography, architecture
photography
modernism
architecture
realism
Dimensions: height 85 mm, width 107 mm
Copyright: Rijks Museum: Open Domain
This photograph, whose author and date have been lost to time, shows Fuel Sheds seen from the Lime Kiln in a North-East Direction. I wonder what it was like to live back then. I can imagine what it might have been like to create this photograph. What the photographer might have been thinking when they made it? What kind of equipment was available? How much money they had? I am struck by the photograph's composition. The sheds are arranged in a grid-like pattern, which gives the image a sense of order and stability. But the photograph is not simply a record of the fuel sheds. It is also a meditation on the nature of photography itself. The photograph challenges us to see the world in new ways. It reminds us that the world is always changing, and that our understanding of it must change as well.
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