Onbekende locatie in de Verenigde Staten (Chicago?): electriciteitsmasten in een stad 1936

This photograph of an unknown location in the United States, perhaps Chicago, was taken by Wouter Cool. It looks like a simple image, but that utility pole is doing some heavy lifting, huh? It’s black and white, with a high contrast, but there are all kinds of grays in there, between the sky and the architecture. See that curve of the building there, looming over the electrical pole? The photo seems to focus on the dialogue between the rigid geometry of the pole and the ornate details of the building. I'm wondering if Cool was also into architecture. Maybe he was a fan of Atget? This image has a similar sensibility. It's like Cool wanted to turn the mundane into something monumental, a conversation between the past and the present. Art, even in its simplest form, keeps the conversation going, right?