Portret van Wilhelmina van Zijll de Jong en Henriëtte van Bergen, Londen 1932 - 1936

This photograph of Wilhelmina van Zijll de Jong and Henriëtte van Bergen in London was taken by an anonymous photographer, at an unknown date. I imagine the photographer with their camera, pointing it and snapping the image. It's a casual kind of shot. How many others were taken at the same time? Are they all as good as this one? Probably! Compositionally, it's very interesting—there are so many details, it's a rich image. You can feel the photographer taking time to frame the subjects. I can imagine that they were in dialogue with other photographers and images of the time, thinking about what a good portrait should be. I wonder if the photographer felt free? Or restricted? It's beautiful in its own way, a captured moment. We will never know who took this photograph, but they are in conversation with other artists through time, and we with them.