New
London: Then and Now is
a photographic survey of the city of New London, Connecticut.
The objective of this study is to compare the architecture of
New London at the beginning to that at the end of the twentieth
century. It is essentially the retracing of footsteps of photographers
who used historic photographic processes to create beautiful images
of urban, New England architecture. It is a look into the eyes
of people who lived in the early 1900s helping us see the city
as they did one hundred years ago. Many of these comparisons
are quite dramatic, the historic structures may no longer exist,
they have been renovated, or additions have been constructed.
Other comparisons are very subtle with different window treatments,
landscaping, or exterior decoration. However change is seen in
every photograph, some change for the better and some for the
worse. Some beautiful architecture has been lost and replaced,
some demolished and never replaced, and some still existing in
its original form. Change, however, is what makes a city grow,
and survive. New London has survived time, grown in population,
and has a promising future in the new millennium.
--Ben Robinson
