New York City Then & Now
Rephotography entails finding the exact spot where an old photograph was taken and shooting the scene again. Professionals use equipment similar to what was used to make the old photograph, and try to mimic exactly the framing, time of day and other salient aspects of the original picture.
The show presents 50 cityscapes from the Modernist photographer Berenice Abbott's 1939 book Changing New York, each paired with a picture shot from the same perspective with the same model large-format camera by the commercial photographer Douglas Levere between 1997 and 2003.
New York Changing: Douglas Levere Revisits Berenice Abbott's New York
Museum of the City of New York
Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
(212) 534-1672
Now through Nov. 13.