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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Forty-Three Years Apart

After trying to re-shoot some Walker Evans 1935 views in Bethlehem, I attempted to do a couple of my own. As stated in the previous post...

Back in our college years, a buddy and myself were traveling between Indiana and the Big Apple. We were both photographers and so stopped to do some shooting in Bethlehem—I suppose we were looking for some gritty reality in the old steel town.

As for this diptych, it turned out better than the one in the previous post. The large tree one sees in the top image may in fact be the tiny sapling the town has recently planted in the vintage view below.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Forty-Three Years Apart After trying to re-shoot some Walker Evans 1935 views in Bethlehem, I attempted to do a couple of my own.

Back in our college years, a buddy and myself were traveling between Indiana and the Big Apple. We were both photographers and so stopped to do some shooting in Bethlehem—I suppose we were looking for some gritty reality in the old steel town.

I did not do well for this re-shoot: I got caught up in conversation with a man on the street and so messed up badly as to where I should stand. (The proper position for the re-shoot would have been down the street a bit more, to the alley one sees, on the left.) Another photography note: I stitched the historical image together from more than one frame, thus the same man appears twice.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Ninety Years Apart

As with my previous post: for this historical time-comparison diptych, I have to stand on the sturdy shoulders of the great Walker Evans. Other photographers have done this prior to me: retracing the wanderings of Walker Evans in Bethlehem.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Ninety Years Apart

For this historical time-comparison diptych, I have to stand on the sturdy shoulders of the great Walker Evans. As with my experience re-shooting Robert Frank's "View From a Hotel Window" in Butte last fall, I am not the first person to retrace the wanderings of Walker Evans in Bethlehem. Oh for a filter that could remove automobiles, they dominate nearly every contemporary urban scene.

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