Stefan Kirkeby’s photographs examine starkly geometric aspects of the modern landscape. Selecting mundane, industrial settings, he infuses them with a sense of mystery and drama. In this photograph of overhead power lines and their transmission towers, Kirkeby seems to pay particular homage to shots of telephone wires against the sky made by Harry Callahan in the 1940s. Callahan framed his images so tightly—black lines on a white background—that the objects they depict are nearly unrecognizable. Kirkeby, by contrast, provides a poetic, yet identifiable view of power lines, offering an intimate, sublime perspective on a landscape that is typically viewed from afar and in passing. Kirkeby’s work draws on a tradition of black-and-white landscape photography that ranges from the elegant and epic natural scenes of Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams to the rigorously conceptual images of Ed Ruscha and Bernd and Hilla Becher.