Portret van Winnegien Bosch getrouwd met de timmerman Meyer c. 1902 - 1908

This is a photograph of Winnegien Bosch, wife of Meyer the carpenter, by Gerardus Aalbersberg. Look at that indigo hue washing across the picture plane. I wonder if Aalbersberg anticipated how time would transform his photograph, the gentle decay and subtle changes giving the work a feeling of melancholy? I'm thinking about Winnegien posing for the photograph. Did she know Aalbersberg? Was she nervous? Did she like how she looked in profile? She's looking to the right but I wonder what's on her mind? Winnegien’s gaze encourages us to imagine a future. Perhaps she's contemplating her life with Meyer the carpenter. In a way, Aalbersberg is conjuring something that exceeds the boundaries of the photograph. A work of art becomes an opening, a question. Aalbersberg's photograph is an invitation to make images and meaning out of a captured moment.