Piz Cambrena, Piz Palü, The Engadine 1921

Editor: Here we have A.G. Wehrli's photograph, "Piz Cambrena, Piz Palü, The Engadine." The stark monochrome and soaring peaks create a really imposing, almost humbling feeling. What do you see in this piece? Curator: Well, first, the scale just floors me. It feels ancient, doesn't it? Like peering into the planet's very bones. And the photographer, he’s not just recording a landscape. He’s whispering about time, about geological eons, about the sheer indifference of nature to our fleeting human dramas. Don't you think? Editor: I suppose that's why the peaks are named. Curator: Exactly! That act of naming feels like a tiny act of defiance, a way of making it personal. Editor: That's so interesting, I never would have thought of it that way. Curator: I guess we can all learn something from the grand indifference and awesome scale of the mountains.