Dimensions: height 240 mm, width 290 mm
Copyright: Rijks Museum: Open Domain
This is a photograph of a riveted iron double bottom for a cooking pot, but the image really captures the industrial era! Look at the surface – so silvery and smooth, but also rough with all those bolt heads. You can almost smell the machine oil, right? The lettering around the side – Zending Braart – probably marks it for shipping, so it’s on its way somewhere, carrying something. I love the way the light reflects off the metal; it’s like the whole thing is humming with potential energy. It reminds me of some of those early industrial photos by people like the Bechers, but there’s something even more raw and immediate here. It speaks to the time when industry and production became a real focus. It’s not just an object; it's a moment captured, loaded with meaning and possibility. It invites all kind of interpretation.
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