The vivid primary colors that once distinguished this hotel http://www.pbase.com/image/60068611 ) are gone. They have been replaced by whitewash. New management, new name, but no color. Yet is not white a color as well? It is, and for photographers, white can also be symbolic. I stood on the same spot where I had made my previous image a year earlier, and moved in with my wideangle format to stress the hulking contrast between the whitewashed wall, softly illuminated by the partially overcast sky, and the opposing wall in the shadows, which is dark gray. Yet when photographed in color, white is not all white, and gray is not all gray. Traces of blue can be seen in both walls, and the sky is a cloud streaked pale gray blue as well. Both this and my previous image express the nature of man’s geometrically organized spaces. But while the previous image was built upon its vivid primary colors, this image relegates color to context. The subject here is the oppressive weight of a structure designed to impress as much express. My vantage point burdens the viewer with its scale, size, the texture of the gray wall, the huge triangular gray shadow cast on the white wall, and the double diagonal thrusts of the rooflines. Far from celebrating life though architecture as the previous image did, this overwhelms and entraps us. Its very lack of coloration makes it seem cold and austere.