Being a conceptualism photographer and land artist, John Pfahl said in his in 1982, “all photos start with the window and end in the window. Like a life, there is no image of excluding the window and the thinking with no window doesn't exist. Window is just a mirror and the mirror is just the window. My Picture Windows is my mirror with the window. It is a perception & illusion through the window and my everlasting sense of life. As the mirror of a mind that must be cared for a lifetime, it is the frame of my life.”
John Pfahl photographed “Picture Windows” using a big camera with 16 X 20 inch. He transmitted the world through the big and meaningful window, and the world admired his photo produced for a long time. His photos carried three meanings. One is 'a distanced view' as a gap of the life, another is 'a passionate observer' between visions, and the other is 'the depth of perspective chamber' as a boundary of the life. In Picture Windows Series of John Pfahl, these three factors that is the meaning of 'window' in the life are contained. Window is the reality and the frame of vision at the same time. It is also lucida and obscura.
"The Windows" of Baek Seungwoo show the gap between the perception and re-perception for his own life. In today's photos, there are many windows. Through many windows, the photo is made. However, unlike these windows, there is the windows which have special meaning over the general one. His window is the window of hotel. Hotel window is the frame of visible aesthetic over the physical view to him. In addition, the hotel window is the window of perception over the visible outlook and universal view. Window is the mirror and is the window to him. Also, the window is the foreground and the background of the life. He is a hotelier. He is the member of hotel management. For him, the hotel window is the window of apperception projected by the life's structure and the frame of meaning.