Overstroomde straat met loopplanken in Parijs 1910 - 1911

This small photograph, titled "Overstroomde straat met loopplanken in Parijs" by G. Dangereux, shows a flooded street. The water dominates the scene, rippling and reflecting the buildings and sky. What was the photographer thinking? The photograph could be a found image, something small, intimate, a trace of another's process. I think about how the photograph has captured an event, an exceptional one. The photographer's challenge, like a painter's, is to organize and render something into a coherent image. The photograph freezes a moment in time but also invites us to imagine what came before and after, the flow of water but also the flow of life. And in a way, every artist is responding to the deluge of life, trying to make sense of it, to give it form and meaning through color and texture.