Hoekje van een tuin met bloemen achter (?) een huis 1907 - 1930

Adolphe Burdet made this photographic slide, titled "Corner of a Garden with Flowers behind a House," sometime between 1880 and 1920. The image presents a common subject for the time, a flower garden, but the context in which it was produced gives it particular meaning. The image was made in Switzerland, a country with a growing tourist industry in the late 19th century. Advances in photographic technology and the rise of mass media allowed for the widespread circulation of images of Switzerland's natural beauty. Tourism played a significant role in shaping Switzerland's national identity and economy. Burdet's image, with its picturesque composition, contributed to the romanticized image of Switzerland that was so popular at the time. It is important to remember that these kinds of images are constructed and mediated by specific cultural and economic forces. To understand this further, scholars consult tourism studies, photography history, and Swiss cultural history, as well as the archives of institutions that helped to popularize the image of Switzerland.