The photographer combined photographs of the same places, but in different centuries (17 photos)

At the age of 10, Mark Hersh from Boston was given a Kodak camera by his parents. Instamatic, and even then he felt a passion for photography. He He photographed everything that caught his eye, that seemed interesting to him: people, nature, animals and various remarkable places and objects. But he had another constant hobby - history.





Children's hobbies became the basis of his current professional activities: Mark collects photographs from the ancient past that depict people and cities, and connects them with his photographs of the same places of ours time. The result is amazing collages that you can trace how our world has changed over time.

Check out these 16 comparisons of major cities today with photos of them from centuries past.

New York from a bird's eye view, 2020/1851



Mark says that while he was living in Boston his parents took him to historical places from the time of the War for independence, where he took pictures with his camera. Then the family moved to Northern Virginia, and he, of course, explored the entire area. And during While studying at the institute, he became seriously interested in history and visited battlefields during the Civil War, which left an indelible impression on him impression.

47th Street, Manhattan, 2022/1941

Passenger ship "SS Eastland", 2023/1903



Flatiron Building, New York, 2018/1903



Drake Hotel, Chicago, 2023/1936



Ferris Wheel in Lincoln Park, 2023/1901



Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 2023/1930



By the age of sixty, Mark was planning to end his career in in the field of marketing and advertising and thought about what he would do next. His his passion for photography did not disappear; on the contrary, he improved my skills and bought quality equipment. And then one day he came across photographs from a hundred years ago of the city of Chicago, in which he lived for about twenty years. Mark decided to repeat these shots, and so he started rephotography.

Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 2022/1899



Chicago Board of Trade building, 2021/1898



Chicago, 2018/1893



Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 2023/1936



Plaza Hotel, New York, 2018/1900



Michigan Avenue, Chicago, next to the Art Institute, 2022/1921



Chicago, Lincoln Park Boathouse, 2018/1905



The highlight of Mark’s photographs is that he doesn’t just create collages, where one picture is from the past, the second is from the present, and connects these photographs into a single picture, which clearly shows how the place changes under the influence of man.

Highland Park Fire Department, 2023/1929



Chicago Fire, 2021/1871