Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- After its invention photography was soon deployed to record the progress of building projects. The status of such photographs was rather modest: they were utilitarian, not art. Accordingly the simplest method of printing photographs was sometimes chosen, namely the cyanotype or blueprint. In our modern eyes, however, the intense blue colour is an aesthetic elementthat only enhances the image’s expressive power.- De fotografie werd na haar uitvinding al snel ingezet om de voortgang van bouwprojecten vast te leggen. Zulke foto’s hadden een heel bescheiden status: wel nuttig, geen kunst. Vandaar dat soms de eenvoudigste methode om foto’s af te drukken gekozen werd, de cyanotypie of blauwdruk. De krachtige blauwe kleur is in moderne ogen echter juist wel een esthetisch element die de kracht van het beeld vergroot.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana