approaching a city

"Approaching a City conveys a paradox of contemporary life. The railroad made faraway places accessible to ordinary people, but it also made those places less distinctive."
http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/artwork/Hopper-Approaching_City.htm

Light painting

American painter Edward Hopper, composed his scenes very much like a photographer does, organizing the world in a bidimensional universe.
Now a San Francisco art gallery, makes this more clear with this exhibition.
I think that light is what mattered to him and it is the matter of all photographers.