Fascinating Then and Now Images with NYC Crime Scene Photographs
In this fascinating series of New York City Then and Now, historian and photographer Marc Hermann superimposes vintage crime scene photographs with images from the exact locations as they exist today. "My inspiration is drawn not from fictional characters, but rather from the real people who documented life in New York through the mid-20th century." ~ Marc Hermann Hermann utilized images found on the Daily News Pix photo archive of the New York Daily News. He then culled historic crime scenes of fires, plane crashes, gas explosions, suicides, and murders, and blended them expertly with the modern scenes of today. It would be interesting to hear what the current residents of some of these NYC crime scene photograph locations would have to say. "New York is constantly changing and transforming, and tragedies that affected individuals’ lives are forgotten. We may stand on what was once the site of a horrific murder and not even know it, simply because life goes on....