The Handboogstraat, Amsterdam, George Hendrik Breitner (attributed to), c. 1890 - 1897
gelatin silver print, h 304mm × w 397mm More details
They were called peintre-photographes: painters who took up photography as amateurs. One of them was Breitner, who owned various cameras. He used photography primarily to capture the dynamism of life on the street. He scoured the city all day long, recording figures and situations in thousands of photographs. Here he shot a woman and some children sitting on a flight of steps.
