What Does History Look Like?
How can human societies reckon their place in history? Where can we look to orient ourselves in time?
Geological and cosmic time are too vast, and the seasonal cycles of nature too short, to lend sense to the lessons of a lifetime or to the culture of an era. Works of craft such as buildings, and photographs—measure time on a scale more closely related to our own, and yet still distinct.
Photographs of buildings describe the way artifacts from throughout history have looked, and how they have been seen, over the past 170 years. They link the deep past to the present by way of moments of vision, imparting a human texture to time.
