The photograph has a relationship with both tourism and architecture. In tourism, it is often used as evidence of having been somewhere - whether taken by the visitor or bought as a postcard. Architecture uses the photograph less than the photograph uses architecture, often making it the subject. Architecture is used to elevate photography while tourism can reduce it to trinket. When the tourist's subject is architecture, the photograph is something different still.

Most of these photographs
 relate more to the documentary aspect of film or photography. Attempting to be neither postcard or artistic statement, they are more simply to record a location.

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Thom Mayne (Morphosis): Caltrans District 7, Los Angeles

Rem Koolhaas: Seattle Public Library, Seattle

Frank Gehry: Experience Music Project, Seattle

Jose Rafael Moneo: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles

Richard Meier: Getty Center, Los Angeles

Frank Gehry: Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

Union Pacific Railyards, Sacramento

Herzog + de Meuron: de Young, San Francisco

Renzo Piano: Broad Contemporary Art, Los Angeles