In the large glass building, scenes of the city and white clouds in a blue sky loomed large. I peered through the window at the clouds, and everything looked different. The lighting was better, the colors paler, the shadows more vibrant, the quality was closer to the surface. This was a city I lived in, and all the nights were wonderful nights in which the rim of the sky was something like white wine in a bottle.

Panchromatic: The colors come from machines. The software engineers spent six years preparing a method for producing panchromatic photographs. The photographs were then processed with special scanners and analyzed with sophisticated software. The resulting photographs were of a precisely circular shape. The literature on color says that a photograph is a photographic effect that must not be confused with the real thing. Photographs were also invented to serve other purposes.