Yale University School of Architecture

“Photography for Architects” Seminar –  Fall 2005

Post Card View[s] is intended to comment on our relationship with one’s day-to-day context. An enlargement of an old postcard is positioned directly in front of the actual scene. Openings within the card enable the actual to fuse with the representation. The representation is clear whereas the actual appears blurred. This speaks to our casual relationship with spaces and structures that we barely notice as we traverse through or by on a daily basis. The postcard view speaks to an idealized, often new, presence. The actual is secondary and familiar to our typical experience of place.