Resonance XXV

Without doubt, Garry Blackman's image of the Robbie Burns in the Oliver Book is a classic and in retrospect of the time peroiod when it was taken I knew it would be hard to find an image that epitimized the hotel in a similar manner. Because of this I had avoided trying to find an image that might conveye some of this. Also there was
the literary images Baxter created of student flats and
the authoriterian, calvanistic society that  portrayed Dunedin. Initially I looked to photograph only the top
half of the hotel's facard  from George Street but fortunately the framing was not right and I had to return
for another shoot from the same location. Here the
framing was much better, but on my return to the car
I found another view point (from a car park that is obscured from a back street) that seemed to
encompass many of the aspects Baxter referenced.