This week’s “Photo of the Week” is a bit different. One you have seen here before, the other you have not. Here are two scenes of Times Square at night taken from almost the same spot, but taken 50 years apart. The first scene was taken in the late autumn of 1958….the second in July of 2008.
What a difference! In the first photograph I was standing a bit to the left on the intersection of 42nd Street and Broadway in Times Square. In 2008 I was more in the center of the intersection.
Of course they were taken with two different cameras: the first with a twin lens reflex and the second with digital camera with a wide angle lens.
And for those people who like like to see the scene in color, I have added the 2008 version in color too.
While I was not quite in the identical spot…but maybe was maybe a foot or two away from the first one taken 50 years ago.
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Frank Brueske
Award winning photographer, Franklin (Frank) Brueske, is originally from Southeastern Minnesota. He became interested in photography while in elementary school and purchased his first camera from a rural community drug store when he was is the sixth grade. It took 127 film, was fixed focus, but had sun and cloud adjustments. He still has that camera today. More about Frank
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and you were only in your 20s, you have done such great works over the years. Times Square is only 23 miles from our house.
What pictures!!!! The color one is verygood also. I liket the 50 years apart. Ihave 2 pictures of myself taken in front Eiffel tower. the first one Iwas inthe Navy, the second we were on a family trip. Odf course I look the same on both!! Glenn Brueske
great Frank, I enjoyed both the black and the colored. Ken Wooster, if you list only 23 miles from Times Square, you must have lot of house guests. (Irene Nunneley, Frank’s cousin., Virginia Beach, VA)
Irene,we really had the house guests when we lived only 17 miles from Niagara Falls, NY
Great contrasts in this picture, Frank, and you are soooooooo right, I don’t think I would care to be fishing on that pier unless I was ready for a salt water bath.
The Ole Mississippi is raising havoc right now, isn’t she?
The B&W shot offers more depth of field, and to me, it’s more appealing than in color. It makes one ponder what the view will be like in 50 years to come. Of course, I’ll pray it’s from an overhead view!