The Washington panorama was made for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and I worked with curator Merry Foresta on an exhibition and book of the final work. After researching historic panoramas of the city and potential sites, we chose the vantage point offered by the clock tower of the historic Post Office building, at that time in the domain of the National Park Service and home to the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities. I completed a 360° panorama of the city from that location in September of 1992. But in that year the election brought a change in government when Bill Clinton was elected president, so I began thinking about how to employ the lesson from Muybridge and use replacement photographs of the scene in Washington to extend the panorama’s time period. I returned in January of 1993 and was able to make photographs of the inaugural parade including the view down Pennsylvania Avenue and the Capitol Dome (done with difficulty because of the sensitive nature of this location for security). I later returned in the spring of 1993 to complete the right half of the panorama so that the final view would be made over three seasons and two administrations. The White House appears twice in both the far left and far right views. Additionally, the idea behind the panorama was that any single part of the panorama could be remade if and when the city changes. Thus in this version, there is a view below the single line of the panorama’s images that was made during the previous administration in 1992, and another above the line that was made two years later in 1995 when construction on the Regan Building was completed.