The invention of photography was revolutionary for the implications of its use, and documentation through photography surfaced shortly after its creation. This is a theoretical series looking at how architecture and city design was documented for preservation, understanding, aesthetics and educational purposes. It is also about how the buildings themselves have also been preserved, and even repurposed. All the photographs in this series are from the Grand Rapids Public Library, and then replicated at the exact angle to display the changes, alterations or lack thereof between the past and present. It represents past and present lives, where Grand Rapids was, and how it is today. The recycling of buildings for a new use, or surviving with an original lasting purpose in our society, one hundred or more years later provides us a juxtaposition of antiquated and modern.
