In 1915-1916 San Diego hosted the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park in San Diego.  A book was published in June 1916 entitled The Architecture and the Gardens of the San Diego Exposition, consisting of a series of photographs by Harold A. Taylor, descriptions by architect Carleton Monroe Winslow, and a preface by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, the advisory and consulting architect for the exhibition.

 

To commemorate the centennial of this book’s publication, in this new work photographs were taken by Keith Schooler in 2015 to precisely match those from the 1916 book as a rephotography project.  These provide a “then and now” or “past and present” type of book.  Great care has been taken to create artistic pictures that match, as closely as possible, the view of the original photographs.  Each set of photographs is accompanied by text describing the historical context, especially as related to the 1915 Panama-California Exposition that was held in the park.

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