Wall Street then and now

Similar styles, 90+ years apart.

Visiting the excellent Magnum web site I could not help but be struck by the stylistic similarities of Paolo Pellegrin’s 2008 pictures of Wall Street compared with the 1915 snap taken by Paul Strand.


Paolo Pellegrin, Wall Street, 2008


Paul Strand, Wall Street, 1915

You can see more of Pellegrin’s work here.