Changing Cities: The Overlapping Of Past And Present

Not only the fashion director of Esquire, Nick Sullivan is also a dedicated photographer and downright perfectionist, as demonstrated by his amazing Instagram feed. Sullivan’s new favourite pastime sees the British-born fashion expert scouring the Internet in search of old photographs of London, Paris and New York and meticulously locating the same exact spot, inserting the picture from the past into one of the present space to demonstrate the passing of time. From a picture of Colette sitting in the portico of the Palais Royale to a portrait of Bob Dylan walking down a tree-lined avenue in Central Park and the Rolling Stones taking a stroll in Covent Garden, Sullivan’s “doubletakes” become joyful accounts of the evolution of some of the world’s most-loved cities.

h/t: anothermag. Images and captions © by Nick Sullivan.

Les Minets, a French, rather chic version of Mods hanging about outside Le Drugstore Boulevard Saint Germain, 1966

David Bowie. Manchester Square W1 1965

Park Ave, 1959

William and Pine Streets 1950s NYC

Ships old and new, 1950s/2015

Queen Street, Bermuda, 1930s

Simon and Garfunkel: Wednesday Morning 3am, 1964, 53rd Street Station

Brooklyn Kids Smith Street 1978 and today

St Marks Place, 1981

Stickball on Jersey Street, Little Italy NY 1955

Hipsters, 42nd and Madison 1961 by Garry Winogrand, and background today

August 1937/August 2015 on Bleecker St opposite Our Lady of Pompeii

18 Pell Street in 1900 and this afternoon

Rainy Rue Saint Petersbourg, Gustave Caillebotte, 1870s

Colette and cat, Palais Royal

Les Enfants de la Place Hébert 18e Arrondissement 1959 by Robert Doisneau. The Restaurant La Piscine is still there but has been rather chicified

Liz and Dick, Lungarno Amerigo Vespucci, Florence

St George’s Mayfair, 1972

Yes that’s right constable, Daleks, outside J Sheekey…what? No they haven’t got the plungers out yet

The Stones, James St Covent Garden, 1964

Muhammad Ali, London

10th Ave

Bob Dylan, Central Park, NYC