TanioNadine VtP: seeing image(s)

Image #1 is a found image. It is centered and its perspective provides a sense of depth and excess, discipline and power. I think it is a terrific starting point to discussing absence.Image #2: Is a created image, a composite and editing of two photos into one. I am uncertain if it successfully conveys what the author is intending. When I look at this image I question the scale and placement of Biddy Mason's portrait within the frame. Not that Biddy Mason should not be front and center, but I do not know how presence impacts my reading of the other photo. There is a foreground/background play at work that I struggle to process. The photo of the white pioneers is presented as a typical archived photograph. Biddy Mason's portrait is the spectral visualization that haunts the archive collection. The family may be represented archive, but their names, hopes, lives, impact on Los Angeles, are also seemingly absent from the archive.  These are my questions provoked by my reading of this image.