Lokomotieven c. 1900s - 1910s

This photograph, of some locomotives, has a lovely tonal range—varying from warm to cool grays. I imagine the photographer carefully positioning the camera and composing the image. The photograph must have come into being through trial, error, and intuition, shifting and emerging over time. I sympathize with the artist and wonder what it might have been like to capture this scene? What might they have been thinking when they made it? The buildings and engines, with their geometric masses, play against the organic forms of the branches in the top left. It makes me think about those graphic novels with the stark black and white and hard lines... except softer. The placement of the people gives the photograph scale and hints at an interesting narrative. It speaks to the artist's wider practice, I think, capturing daily scenes with technical aptitude and compositional awareness. Artists are in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity.