Marion Post Wolcott crouched in the snow below a barbed wire fence at a farm in Montgomery County, Maryland
This photograph captures the act of looking. At first, it appears to be a photograph of a farm in winter: snow, fences, barns, an ordinary rural landscape. But then you notice the photographer crouched behind the barbed wire. Suddenly, the photograph becomes about more than the farm. It shows someone deliberately placing herself in an…