Tak met bladeren en knoppen 1900 - 1930

Richard Tepe captured this moment of budding leaves on film, sometime before 1952. Look at the way he’s rendered the leaves in varying shades, like he’s building up their forms with light itself. I'm thinking about Tepe out there with his camera, trying to capture the fleeting light as it filters through the leaves. The way the light catches on the edges of the leaves, it's almost like he's painting with light. You know? Photography and painting, they're not so different. Both about capturing a moment, an atmosphere. Both about seeing. There’s something really intimate and tender about it. He’s showing us how to look, to appreciate the small, quiet moments of beauty that are all around us. And that’s a conversation that artists have been having for centuries, each one building on what came before, seeing the world anew and inviting us to see it with them.