You know there was color on the planet before the 1960s — the world wasn’t like when Gilligan’s Island suddenly switched from black & white to color — but seeing it somehow almost bends your brain.
Here are a whole bunch of color photographs of NYC in the 1940s.
The added spectrum makes it like a movie. Or yesterday. Faker and realer, simultaneously.
As for a glimpse of today, Humans of New York. It’s a huge project of street portraits plotted on a map. The creativity of humans will never cease to delight, to teach, to bring us, to us.
Yes, the internet pleases me, but what a magical time we live in — where anyone can see the past and the present, all in one place.
