Het Rode Plein in Moskou op 1 mei 1933 Possibly 1933 - 1935

S. Tules took this photograph of Red Square in Moscow on May Day in 1933. Look at the sharp angle of the shot, the way the square is tilted. I'm thinking the photographer might have been standing on something high, maybe a tower, wanting to catch the spectacle of the May Day parade. I feel how they wanted to capture the largeness of the event, the way the space is filled with people and vehicles, all arranged so neatly, yet the square seems so bare. I wonder what Tules felt about capturing all this activity, if they knew how to handle such a charged moment. It reminds me how artists, throughout time, have responded to their worlds, interpreting their moment and place through art. It is a silent conversation, a dance of creative gestures, where one artist's expression sparks another's, and it becomes this ongoing relay race of vision.