Haven van Patras before 1910

Frédéric Boissonnas’ photograph of the Port of Patras captures a distant view of the sea and coast. It's a grainy image, and I wonder if this was intentional. I can imagine Boissonnas wanting to embrace photography as an art form and so was interested in the indexical and the haptic quality of the image. As a painter, I’m often thinking about how images come to life. Was Boissonnas also interested in how an image comes to life and how much you can do with a single shot? Did he try to create a sense of texture by any chance? I feel I can almost feel the sea breeze and smell the sea. It is like the work of other painters as well in that it transports me to a different place. In the end, we are all inspired by one another.