Photos in Van Gogh‘s time
We went to a great exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam yesterday: Snapshot. All about how many of Van Gogh‘s contemporaries started experimenting with the first ‘consumer‘ cameras and how this influenced and supported their painting - and vice versa. There were many of their 'snapshots‘ shown right next to related paintings.
Of course I could not resist making a snapshot myself, with the ultimate consumer camera of our time: my mobile phone.
Footnote: Ironically, the very company that made the cameras that enabled these painters to explore photography, is now preparing for bankruptcy. The slideshow features two of the three early Kodak cameras used by these painters.
