Gezicht op Johannesburg, gezien vanaf Hospital Hill 1901

This stereoscopic photograph shows a bird's eye view of Johannesburg. I imagine the photographer hauled the camera up Hospital Hill to capture this scene. Think about standing there, setting up the equipment and finding the right angle to capture the scale of the landscape. What were they hoping to show us? The architecture of the buildings, the patterns made by the layout of the roads. I wonder how the artist would have been thinking about how to present a city in a single shot. There's something beautiful in the way they decided to frame this, and how their decisions speak to other photographers across time. We are all constantly learning from and responding to each other. Painting, photography, it's all a process of exchange, where artists borrow, steal, and transform ideas. Each piece has a story, open to endless interpretations.