sometime last year - the Newark Museum, in beautiful downtown newark, had an exhibit from some famous photographer of pictures of Newark thru the decades... Newark is an incredibly crime riddled city, but decades ago, there was pride in the city, and it was almost clean - and the architecture was and still is amazing... though some of the older buildings are now crack dens or about to be ripped down to make room for new high rises... the old pictures give so much history of what was... I'd love to have heard a commentary from someone who did live there then and what it was like - I can only imagine from the pictures... the commentary would complete the story.
At christmas, when I was at my parents, I found an old photo album from when I was a kid, and it was all pictures of the town that i grew up it -- based on the pictures, the town is completely unrecognizable now... 20 years from now... it'll all have changed again...
Photos are a frozen moment in time... I still prefer the stories that go along with that frozen moment...
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