There is a fairytale quality to Bertien van Manen's 1975 photograph of the arrivals hall at Budapest Keleti train station. Among the questions it demands is: who are the two women in shawls and where might they be going? (And then there is the slight double take required to be sure that the pointing woman's arm is not somehow on both sides of the right-hand shawl-wearer's head.) The otherworldly atmosphere of the photograph was appropriate to Van Manen's quest.
Her journey to Budapest marked a sliding doors moment in her career. Up until then, the photographer, who died last month aged 89, had a..
. Tim Adams.
