Pagina 152 van fotoboek van de Algemeene Vereeniging van Rubberplanters ter Oostkust van Sumatra (A.V.R.O.S.) by J.W. Meyster

Pagina 152 van fotoboek van de Algemeene Vereeniging van Rubberplanters ter Oostkust van Sumatra (A.V.R.O.S.) c. 1924 - 1925

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photography, gelatin-silver-print

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dutch-golden-age

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light coloured

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landscape

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photography

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gelatin-silver-print

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cityscape

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realism

Dimensions: height 240 mm, width 310 mm

Copyright: Rijks Museum: Open Domain

This photograph, one of many in J.W. Meyster’s photo book of the Algemeene Vereeniging van Rubberplanters, shows a copra factory, a large industrial building, and a towering chimney under a pale sky. I imagine Meyster, framing the factory against the landscape, probably thinking about how to capture the scale of this place. The building looms over the manicured lawn like it wants to assert itself. The photograph feels strangely formal, but something about the quiet stillness of the composition makes me wonder about the activity and the lives that must have passed through this place. The stark geometry of the building, the subtle shifts in tone, the smokestack reaching upward. It reminds me a bit of the Bechers’ typologies of industrial structures, but without the same sense of austerity. Artists look and learn from each other. The way one thing leads to another, endlessly inspiring new ways of seeing and thinking.

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