Vissersboten in de haven van Douarnenez 1901

Delizy’s photograph of fishing boats in Douarnenez harbor is a lovely muted brown, like a memory, or a half-erased dream. It's amazing, isn't it, how the artist managed to capture this moment? I wonder, what was Delizy thinking when they made this? What caught their eye? It’s a quiet scene, almost melancholy, yet there’s a kind of peace to it, too. It’s like they’re asking us to consider the lives of these boats, the stories they could tell. So many of them together, quietly bobbing up and down. Imagine the sounds! Photographers and painters are always in conversation, looking at each other’s work across time, maybe without even knowing it. Think of the Hudson River School, painting landscapes to try and capture the sublime. Delizy, here, is doing something similar, isn't it? Trying to get at the heart of a particular place, a particular feeling. It’s all about showing and feeling!