Galerij in de Prinses Juliana School 1933

This photograph captures a gallery in the Princess Juliana School, and was made using I’m guessing early photographic techniques. What I really like is that it feels like you’re stumbling upon a moment, caught unawares. The tonal range has a limited palette, focusing on the contrast between light and shadow. It has a great depth of field and the photographer has captured a scene which draws your eye down to the vanishing point. Look how the light reflects off the tiles of the gallery floor, and is then echoed in the facade of the school building in the background. There is a lot of beauty to be found in art that doesn’t try to present a fixed meaning. The longer you spend looking at it, the more you may find. This reminds me of the work of Eugène Atget, another anonymous artist of his time who, like this photographer, understood how to capture the beauty in the everyday.