"The Hague, 1921"-- Surveillance Evoking Early Kodak (?) Photo Print on Card modern French art the lid set safely aside

the lid set safely aside

making me think whoever made this was an artist of note

and really handy for all sorts of things

but this one was beautifully preserved

Postmarked 1917 on reverse

"The Hague, 1921"-- Surveillance Evoking Early Kodak (?) Photo Print on Card modern French art the lid set safely asideI presume this was taken with an early Kodak camera (invented 1888), which produced round images, which I am personally obsessed with, especially for how the circular format makes everything seem as is viewed through a scope and so all about watching, from some degree of remove i. e. voyeurism, and in this case feeling very much like surveillance. (This image was printed directly on card, rather than mounted to a Kodak mount, which is what one usually