Farm House and Barn at Mormon Row Grand Tetons.
The homesteaders who built these structures were farming at over six thousand feet in a valley with a growing season of barely ninety days, on land the trappers before them had considered good only for passing through. Most of the families were gone within two generations. The buildings stayed, and are now protected inside Grand Teton National Park.
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These are probably the most photographed barns in the United States, and that is a genuine problem for anyone pointing a camera at them.
When a subject has been shot ten thousand times, the default composition is already in everyone's head before they arrive, and most people drive out at dawn and reproduce it. The building centred, the range behind, the light warm. It is a good composition, which is why it became the default, and it is also why a hundred versions of it are indistinguishable from each other.
What is actually interesting here is the relationship between the two things in the frame, and it is not a flattering one. The buildings are small, square, hand-built and temporary. The range behind them is none of those things. Every photograph made at Mormon Row is in some way about people putting up a wooden structure in front of something that was there long before and will be there long after, and the pictures that work are the ones that let the mismatch show rather than composing it away.
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