Some nice then and now photos
Some bloggers have done a series of rollover then-and-now photos based on old photos, some of which are pretty familiar to anyone interested in historic city pictures – I reshot some of them myself in 2004, and undoubtedly some were also redone by our king of then-and-now camera work, Guillaume Saint-Jean.
Blork 18:39 on 2012/07/14 Permalink
Those “then and now” things are always fun. I was at the AGO in Toronto recently and I found the ultimate “then and now” book: New York Changing: Revisiting Berenice Abbott’s New York, by Douglas Levere. Levere re-shot much (all?) of Berenice Abbott’s photos from her “Changing New York” book that was published in 1939. What makes this one exceptional is the level of detail that Levere undertook to make the images as similar as possible. He shot from the exact same place, at the same time of year, and even the same time of day so the light would be right. He also used similar equipment and lenses, etc.
Obviously it’s more than a passing whimsy for this guy. He made a real study of it, resulting in a fabulous book.
steph 00:51 on 2012/07/15 Permalink
There are many more trees in the now pictures! Makes those older streets look bleak.
Charles 19:00 on 2012/07/15 Permalink
You could get you hat cleaned on the corner of Laurier and Parc…
Kate 21:03 on 2012/07/15 Permalink
Someone pointed out, re that 1933 photo, that clearly Park Avenue is always being dug up: