As I watched the Hoppers slide by on a big screen at the front of the room I was reminded again how much Hopper's stark, unpitying light, all those sunstruck walls, owes to Eakins.
When Roma goes to a public pool--sunstruck guys in Speedos, women unfurling on the concrete--he understands that a municipal body of water is where the eternal elements meet the .
Robert Adams--no relation to Ansel--loved that tradition but knew it wasn't adequate to tell the story of the new West, full of strip malls and tract housing as sunstruck and .