Amerikaanse militaire installaties nabij Busan 1952

This photograph, Amerikaanse militaire installaties nabij Busan, was taken by David Ketel. It’s a landscape that kinda sprawls, like an impatient gesture. The colours are desaturated, almost bleached, and the whole thing's got this hazy quality. It’s less about precision, more about feeling the vastness, the scale of it all. You can imagine Ketel wanting to capture the feeling of overlooking such a big vista. Up close, there's this blurry foreground of snow and grass. It gives you the sense that the photographer was maybe a bit windswept, like they were there, feeling the scene. The eye is drawn to the military instillations in the distance, the flat buildings nestled in a valley. This picture has a kinship with the work of someone like Fairfield Porter. Both artists are interested in the everyday, capturing fleeting moments and seeing beauty in ordinary scenes. There's no one definitive reading; it's an open invitation to wander through.