Ruïnes van Tiryns before 1910

This photograph, *Ruïnes van Tiryns*, was captured by Frédéric Boissonnas. It's a small, intimate image, sepia-toned, capturing a scene of ancient ruins. The lack of vivid color pushes us to focus on the forms, the textures. It feels like a memory, a fragment of something larger. Look at the way the light falls across the scene, creating subtle variations in tone. There’s a real sense of depth, with the ruins receding into the distance towards a distant hillside. The dark markings in the foreground suggest rubble and debris. It's almost like an abstract composition. Boissonnas invites us to contemplate the passage of time. This reminds me of the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher, who methodically documented industrial structures, finding beauty in the mundane. But where the Bechers were clinical, Boissonnas is poetic, his work imbued with a sense of melancholy and wonder. Photography for Boissonnas, as with any art, is an exchange between what is and what we feel.