Visual Culture: Then and Now
May 12th, 2009
via [ English Russia ]
Sergei Larenkov, the author of “Petersburg Now and Then” has released the second part of the modern city photos combined with the photo made during the city siege at World War2.
These images remind me of Harvey Keitel’s Character in the movie Smoke. His character takes a single photo everyday at the same place and time. They become records of differences and similarities - maybe not as dramatic, but carriers of the betweenness in what they reveal. It is partially what Monet’s haystacks where revealing to us in less dramatic fashion.
