Ähnlich wie Googles Streetview haben Brandon Liu und Jeremy Lechtzin mit 80s.NYC eine interaktive Fotokollektion ins Netz gebracht, durch die man sich nun klicken kann. Dabei kann man sich dann New York City so ansehen, wie es in den 80ern ausgesehen hat. Das könnte ich mir auch für andere Städte gut vorstellen.
80s.nyc is a map-based street view of 1980s New York City, organizing publicly accessible building imagery into an easy-to-browse glimpse of the streetscape 30 years ago.
Over 5 years in the mid-1980s, the City of New York photographed every property in the five boroughs. The project had a bureaucratic origin: the photos would be used by the Department of Finance to estimate real property values for taxation purposes. Buildings as well as vacant lots were photographed, as they’re both taxed – and because it was difficult to distinguish while shooting between taxable and tax-exempt buildings like religious institutions or government offices, the photographers just shot everything. The result was a remarkable body of imagery – over 800,000 color 35mm photos in both negative and print formats.
(via Laughing Squid)