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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Thirty Eight: The camera as time machine: linking the past to the present > The Governor’s Office, Old State Capitol, Phoenix, Arizona, 2008
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29-APR-2008

The Governor’s Office, Old State Capitol, Phoenix, Arizona, 2008

The shades are still drawn against the brutality of the Arizona sun. The old office, cooled by those shades and a single fan, housed Arizona’s governors for more than 60 years. I made sure to expose this image so that the softly glowing figure at the desk becomes shadowy and thus more alive, obscuring the fact that we are actually looking at a mannequin. The figure represents George Wylie Paul Hunt, the first governor of Arizona, and the man largely responsible for its constitution. Hunt served as governor from 1912 to 1919, again from 1923 to 1929, and still again from 1931 to 1933. Through light, shadow, and color, I’ve tried to roll back time here in my own way.

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