Muur met bloeiende perzik bij huize 'De Poll' te Voorst c. 1900 - 1940

Richard Tepe made this silver gelatin print of a wall with a blooming peach tree at 'De Poll' house in Voorst, sometime between 1864 and 1952. The cool sepia tones feel almost brittle, a kind of visual frost. Look how Tepe's captured the lattice against the brick. It's like a delicate drawing laid over the solid structure, creating a rhythmic pattern that your eye just wants to follow. And those bare trees in the background? They echo the linear structure in the foreground, blurring the boundary between what’s natural and what’s constructed. There’s something so melancholic and beautiful about this image, and something interesting too about how a photograph of nature can also seem so staged. Think of Karl Blossfeldt's stark, close-up plant portraits, where nature becomes almost architectural. Tepe, like Blossfeldt, invites us to see the world not just as it is, but as a series of forms, lines, and textures, all talking to each other.