Onbekende locatie in de Verenigde Staten: gezicht in een stad 1936

This black and white photograph, by Wouter Cool, captures a face in a city, somewhere in the United States. I can imagine Cool standing on that bridge, squinting into the sun, the camera a tool for discovery and distillation. What did he see? What made him stop and want to record it? The wires above the road are like musical lines or scratches on the negative, slicing through the composition, contrasting with the solid buildings. The photograph is so still, and yet it gives you a sense of a moment captured. Other photographers like Walker Evans come to mind, who were also interested in the everyday American landscape. There’s a real conversation between artists across time; we are always riffing off each other, finding new ways to see and interpret the world.