May 23, 2006, 9:24:46 am - Getty Museum, Los Angeles

It is always a challenge to take someone else's creation and carve out a piece to call your own. Architectural photography falls into this challenge. In question is the scale, context, and location of the image. There is ambiguity here - familiarity and confusion, a sense of place, but where. What is the object at the center of the picture, our we in a room, what is the purpose of this building?