Twee prentbriefkaarten van het bezoek van koningin Wilhelmina en prins Hendrik aan Versailles Possibly 1912 - 1916

These two postcards capture Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Hendrik’s visit to Versailles with a limited palette of black and white. I think of artmaking as a process and these postcards show the process of a moment, a record of a visit. The material aspect of these works are interesting, the texture of the card and the grainy quality of the photographic print. It really shapes our emotional experience in a way that you can see the weather on that day. The light is captured as a physical thing, the soft sunlight illuminating the carriage with the Queen and the Prince. The overall aesthetic reminds me of early documentary photography and it shows an ongoing conversation of how photography can embrace ambiguity.