New York Now and Then: 1870s & 1880s vs 2010s (See Description for Better/Slower Side-by-Side Video)
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Channel: Jordan Liles
Views: 3,029,216
Rating: 4.8607779 out of 5
Keywords: new york then and now, new york now and then, new york before and after, old new york, old new york photos, new york documentary, yt:cc=on
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Length: 6min 37sec (397 seconds)
Published: Wed Oct 22 2014
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What a lovely thing. Well done, and here's to George.
The reason why I chose to post this is to help spread the word about George Bradford Brainerd's mostly forgotten accomplishments. He was a 19th century photographer. At age 13 in 1858, he experimented with building crude cameras from lenses of opera glasses and cigar boxes. Most of his work was shooting photos as a county surveyor, so he has a lot of wide shots of buildings and locations. He passed away in 1887 at the age of 42. Photography was his life, and I am glad I was able to finish this project so that his memory lives on.
Edit: I also created a half-hour documentary on the creation of the project. It's a little long for most YouTube videos, but I hope you can enjoy it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U083YeeTOvE.
the older pictures in the video need to stay about a second longer, had to turn it off halfway through because of that.
great work though.
This made me want to cry. It's the thought that so little of this world is remembered, so much forgotten over time. And yet here we walk the same streets, reminding us that the past is never really as far away as we imagine it to be. Some day our world will also be a distant memory, and all of us will just be people of a different era.
Your effort to preserve this one man's legacy has pulled his memory from the jaws of time and brought him back to life. How curious to imagine that people would still think of you nearly 150 years after you passed away.
What you've done here is a noble thing. RIP George, you live on in the photos you created.
Very beautiful. I hope you enjoyed the research and reconstruction as much as I did viewing your result.
Looks amazing...but why on earth would you make this a video rather than side-by-side photos?
cool. he liked to shoot in my neighborhood of cobble hill. was happy to see it. lovely work
This is neat. You should post this on /r/VictorianEra, too.
I do enjoy these glimpses of the past. Makes them feel more real and less sepia.