Portretten waaronder dat van zangeres Julia Culp c. 1901

This intriguing page of portrait photographs, including one of the singer Julia Culp, was assembled by an anonymous artist. I can't help but think about the hands that carefully placed each of these images, probably thinking about the people in the pictures. As a painter, I think about the physicality of the medium and of art making. Here, it's the choice of images, how they might sit together, what it might mean to juxtapose certain sitters, or types, or compositions. It's an intense, intimate way of making something. And the material aspects of these images themselves—sepia tones, the paper—are interesting too. This page of portraits offers different ways of seeing, thinking, and experiencing the world. I think about other artists, like Gerhard Richter, and how photos fuel his paintings. It reminds me that artists are always in an ongoing conversation, inspiring one another's creativity across time.