It’s been a damp and dreary week. I love this photo - never has damp and dreary looked so good. It reminds me of a poem in an anthology I had when I was little:
I like the town on rainy nights
When everything is wet -
When all the town has magic lights
And streets of shining jet!
Caption:
Exposition: New York et l’Art moderne, Alfred Stieglitz et son cercle, 1905-1930
Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Octobre 2004-Janvier 2005.
EDWARD J. STEICHEN (1879-1973)
The Flat Iron, 1904
Épreuve à la gomme bichromatée bleu-vert sur papier préparé au palladium / 25,2 x 32,1 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
© Photo The Metropolitan Museum of Art
© Permission of Joanna T. Steichen / Carousel, 2004
© R.M.N., Paris 2004
