I've always admired this Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York by Ezra Stoller. A pale Buick fills the lower foreground, its curvaceous shapes and sharp fins making visual rhymes with the building beyond. then hen, deeper in the picture, we notice two black-clad nuns hurrying along the sidewalk. Their tiny, dark shapes bring out, by contrast, the pale cloudlike volumes of the museum.

The Buick places the Guggenheim in space but also in time, reminding us that even this architectural masterpiece is a product of the taste of its era. Stoller celebrates modernism whilst making it historical.

Some have criticized Stoller of abstracting buildings, reducing them to “precious objects.” Others have praised his ability to subtly contextualize buildings in time and space, including small details of history and geography.

Stoller could do both.