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Photograph any street, find out when it was built
you can date a row of houses from the pavement if you know what to look at — window proportions, brick bond, where the drainpipes run, roof pitch. i tried it on my own street expecting nonsense and got 1928–1935, which is right. now i can't walk anywhere without doing it.
Photograph any street, find out when it was built
you can date a row of houses from the pavement if you know what to look at — window proportions, brick bond, where the drainpipes run, roof pitch. i tried it on my own street expecting nonsense and got 1928–1935, which is right. now i can't walk anywhere without doing it.