Echtpaar Berti Hoppe en Herman Besselaar bij het Gellért Monument en een gezicht op het landbouwmuseum te Boedapest 1930 - 1931

This is a double photograph of Berti Hoppe and Herman Besselaar at the Gellért Monument and a view of the Agricultural Museum in Budapest. This feels like a moment of pause and reflection. Hoppe has staged two different kinds of images on the same page to suggest the experience of being there. The photographs look as though they were taken in monochrome, but the feeling of being there is palpable. I love how the couple are caught on the right hand side walking along the pathway. Their presence is contrasted with a building on the left. The building is perfectly still and we are able to see the ripples in the water more clearly. The photograph feels very modern. Like work that might be being made today, it is a chance encounter and not a staged event. I am reminded of the work of Renger Patzsch and the other New Objectivity photographers in Germany at this time, who similarly were creating new ways of looking at the world.