Album met voorstellingen van het Musée de Cluny en het Panthéon in Parijs c. 1920 - 1940

This photograph by Jan Petrus Ponstijn captures the Musée de Cluny and the Panthéon in Paris. It's a study in greyscale, a symphony of textures and forms emerging from the print. You know, looking at this, I think about the act of seeing. Ponstijn, with his camera, framed this view, but what was he really looking for? Was it the grand architecture, or something else entirely? That central sculpture, the Virgin and Child, stands out with a quiet intensity. And the way the light catches on the surfaces, well, it's almost painterly, right? It reminds you that even in photography, there's a kind of touch. Light becomes his brush and the city his canvas. It makes me want to grab my own brushes and respond to this image! Every artist builds on what came before; this photo feels like a dialogue between the past and the present, inviting us to join the conversation.