Interior photos of Alexine Tinne's house, Lange Voorhout 32

The quirky and wealthy young lady from The Hague Alexine Tinne (1835-1869) was best known in her own time for her adventurous travels. She was the first Western woman to launch an expedition to Central Africa. It is less well known that Tinne was one of the first high-level female photographers in the Netherlands. She experimented with unusually large glass negatives (40 x 50 cm) and converted her carriage into a rolling 'dark room' to take landscape photos. In addition to portraits and cityscapes, she also made interior photos of her spacious and richly filled parental home on the Lange Voorhout.

Donation D. Stebbing

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Due to the little light and the limitations of the technology at the time, indoor photography was difficult, but also innovative. Tinne worked on her experiments with the internationally famous photo pioneer Robert Bingham (1824-1870). Photographs of the interior of Tinne's parental home have also been preserved from his hand. But where Bingham was mainly interested in experimenting with technique, Tinne's photos show that she had an eye for form and composition. What is also special is that a number of photos seem to have been made to 'stick' together, as a kind of collage, so that a larger part of a room could be captured. As a photographer, Tinne often thought out of the box.

_{Alexine Tinne, interior photos of the house at the Lange Voorhout 32}