Woman with dogs in the Bois de Boulogne (1936)
Woman with two dogs in the Bois de Boulogne (Paris) in June, 1936. My restoration and colorization of Willem van de Poll´s (1895 - 1970) image in the Netherlands Nationaal Archief collection.
"A member of the generation of photojournalists who supplied both text and photographs, van de Poll´s work was distributed by international press agencies Associated Press and Black Star. His photo-reportages appeared regularly both inside and outside the Netherlands in magazines like Spiegel, Panorama and the famous Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung. But Willem van de Poll was not born for the world of ‘hard news’. The high-spirited, cigar-smoking photographer was happiest producing atmospheric impressions of places that were then still relatively unknown: the rugged landscapes of Iceland and Norway, romantic Madeira and the mysterious Middle East. At the same time, Van de Poll acquired experience of other forms of photography. During the 1930s he reported on Paris fashions for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, and took photographs for use in advertising by KLM, Unilever and Verkade. Van de Poll’s career took an expected new turn when he was appointed in 1944 to head the photographic service of the Forces of the Interior (formed to unite the various armed resistance organisations opposing the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands). He became staff photographer to the commander-in-chief of the Interior Forces, Prince Bernhard, and together they toured the Dutch towns and cities newly liberated by Allied forces. Thereafter, Van de Poll was to remain the royal family’s in-house photographer through to the late ’50s, even accompanying Bernhard and Juliana on holidays and state visits."
(Fotomuseum den Haag)
Woman with dogs in the Bois de Boulogne (1936)
Woman with two dogs in the Bois de Boulogne (Paris) in June, 1936. My restoration and colorization of Willem van de Poll´s (1895 - 1970) image in the Netherlands Nationaal Archief collection.
"A member of the generation of photojournalists who supplied both text and photographs, van de Poll´s work was distributed by international press agencies Associated Press and Black Star. His photo-reportages appeared regularly both inside and outside the Netherlands in magazines like Spiegel, Panorama and the famous Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung. But Willem van de Poll was not born for the world of ‘hard news’. The high-spirited, cigar-smoking photographer was happiest producing atmospheric impressions of places that were then still relatively unknown: the rugged landscapes of Iceland and Norway, romantic Madeira and the mysterious Middle East. At the same time, Van de Poll acquired experience of other forms of photography. During the 1930s he reported on Paris fashions for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, and took photographs for use in advertising by KLM, Unilever and Verkade. Van de Poll’s career took an expected new turn when he was appointed in 1944 to head the photographic service of the Forces of the Interior (formed to unite the various armed resistance organisations opposing the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands). He became staff photographer to the commander-in-chief of the Interior Forces, Prince Bernhard, and together they toured the Dutch towns and cities newly liberated by Allied forces. Thereafter, Van de Poll was to remain the royal family’s in-house photographer through to the late ’50s, even accompanying Bernhard and Juliana on holidays and state visits."
(Fotomuseum den Haag)