Pantanassaklooster in Mystras before 1910

Frédéric Boissonnas created this small photograph of Pantanassaklooster in Mystras sometime between his birth in 1858 and death in 1946. I can imagine him carefully positioning himself in the landscape to capture the light just right. It's so different from the experience of painting, but both offer a unique way of seeing. I'm drawn to the texture – the grainy quality that feels almost like a charcoal drawing. I wonder what it was like for him to develop these images in the darkroom, watching the scene emerge. You know, artists are always in conversation with each other, whether they know it or not. This reminds me of some landscape painters and their own ways of seeing, thinking, and experiencing the world.