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.
Indeed, indeed.
Or, if you’re my husband, you thought the world was black and white until the 1950s until WAY too old an age.
