Tempels van de Heiligen der Laatste Dagen, Salt Lake City 1924 - 1926

This is a picture of the Mormon Temple Grounds in Salt Lake City by J. Dearden Holmes, and it's in shades of brown, like an old photograph. Looking at it, I start to wonder what the artist was thinking when they chose this view? I love how the details are kind of soft, suggesting a kind of monumentality. Was the temple meant to stand in contrast to the grounds? I think there's a dialogue between the architecture and nature. It reminds me of the work of other photographers who captured landscapes, like Carleton Watkins, but this image has a stillness. There's something really nice about the light in this, and I get the sense that there's a conversation happening across time. Photography feels like a form of expression that, like painting, allows for many ways of looking and interpreting the world. It inspires us to be creative.