Rephotograph Diptychs.

Initially, I had driven to Galisteo and Santa Fe to do my rephotographs. My rephotograph of the plaza was not as interesting as the Galisteo and Northrop Hall photos I had taken, so I omitted the Galisteo church from my selection. When I went to the archives, they informed me that the Galisteo photos were in the Santa Fe archives and it would be expensive and time consuming in order to acquire them. This forced me to look for a new photo. As  result, I found the flagpole incident photo. This worked out better in the end because I felt like this photo was much more dynamic than my previous choices. The original photos are so powerful that I wanted to contrast that high energy with little to no energy. This is why I also chose to leave people out of my rephotographs. Hopefully, I accomplished my goal of creating two opposite moods to exaggerate the high energy of the old photograph to create a more powerful overall impact. The first photograph shows the construction of Northrop Hall and the building from the same angle as it stands today. The second photo was more challenging due to the addition of the front part of the building of Johnson Center, which covers the building in the original photo. I got as close I could to the vantage point and tried to match the location of the 1970 flagpole incident as best as I could.