Ohne Titel (Nachtaufnahme, Berlin) (Untitled [Night shot, Berlin]) c. 1929

Cami Stone’s photograph of Berlin at night captures light trails that dance and loop across the image. Look at how Stone has transformed a city street into an abstract space of pure movement! I'm thinking about what Stone might have been feeling, wandering the streets of Berlin at night. How the darkness changes a city. The way the street lights begin to act as a sort of emotional guide. The photograph is dark, but she's making something that is quite energetic out of the dark material. The lines feel quick, immediate, like a sketch made in light. In this way, she's using the camera as a drawing tool. There’s something about this piece that reminds me of Moholy-Nagy, and all of the different experiments that were happening across Europe at this time. Artists were pushing the boundaries of their mediums, asking what a photograph could be, what a painting could be, what an object could be. It’s like they're all egging each other on, across time and space. The kind of energy that makes me want to get into the studio.