Barn and Car, Lake George 1934

Here's a photograph of a barn and car, taken by Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George. Looking at this, I think about Stieglitz wrestling with light and shadow, trying to capture the soul of this rural scene. The texture of the wood, the way the light catches the car inside the barn—it's all so carefully considered, right? You can almost feel him squinting through the lens, deciding what to include, what to leave out. It’s interesting to see how Stieglitz frames this image. It reminds me a bit of my own process in painting, where I’m always shifting things around, trying to find the right composition to create a feeling. This photograph has a quiet stillness. It’s like a conversation between the old and the new, the natural and the mechanical, all held together in this one captured moment. Artists are always looking at each other's work, across time. It's a kind of conversation, right?