In the past months, it seems like social networking services have been flooded by posts related to photos-in-photos that depict that same place during two very different times. Without much need for explanation, this concept is really humbling. All of us have probably stopped to think about who has occupied the spaces we now inhabit, but this has to close to the ultimate extension of that sort of pondering.
Hats off to the photographers that do the research that makes these dramatic historical juxtapositions possible. You can find the image above and more like it here. When I first started seeing this concept, they were commonly scenes of war-shaken town centers, and how they've been restored. I think this set might have something more to offer. It's fascinating to me how time changes everything, but it happens so slowly that it's hard to see. This particular group of images offers a sort of super-human ability to see into the past.
Lately I've been on a bit of an existential time trip asking questions like, "Who's thought of that? Or, why didn't they do this? Where would we be if this was never created?"
I wonder if the lady on that bench wondered the same thing.
Image source: woa2.com
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