Gezicht op een weg langs de Ponale in Trente, Noord-Italië 1895 - 1930

This photograph captures a road along the Ponale in Trente, Northern Italy, and was made by an anonymous photographer. The silvery monochrome creates this intense, almost tactile experience, like I could reach out and feel the jagged cliffs and the smooth, winding road. It makes me wonder, what was the photographer thinking? Were they struck by the sheer drop, the daring of the road's construction, or the quiet beauty of the distant town? The road itself is this incredible gesture—a line drawn across the landscape. And it speaks to other images of daring infrastructural feats, like the bridges of Gustave Eiffel, or the aqueducts of ancient Rome. It’s like, we’re all just building on each other’s ideas, right? Each trying to find our own way to carve a path through the world.