Meidoorn in bloei 1900 - 1930

Richard Tepe made this photograph, Meidoorn in bloei, at an unknown date with a camera. The blooms here, or at least I imagine them to be blooms, they have a painterly quality, like thick impasto paint, like the whites in a Cy Twombly. The photograph has a very misty quality that is suggestive of the passage of time. Was it spring when he took this? And was it a different spring than we know now? I love that photography can capture those ideas, feelings and experiences in ways that are so different than painting. It kind of reminds me of the work of other artists who tried to paint and draw the landscape, like Van Gogh, or even Cezanne in a certain light. Artists, photographers, we're always in dialogue with each other, exchanging ideas across the centuries. Each of us in our own way capturing that experience of nature and light. Isn't that amazing?