Peter Chesney: Bauwerk T

The caption pulls me into major scholarly debates about troubling binaries, like German-ness/Nazism, tradition/modernity, etc. That said, I cannot immediately recognize this imagery as evoking those debates without resorting to the caption. Adding words to the image would cue me that this massive pit is German (unrecognizable from the imagery alone) and when it was taken. A major theme communicated via the image is scale. The hole is enormous, yet I'd expect it to be even bigger knowing already the weight of concrete involved in the finished project.