In a chilling mashup of art, history and true crime, photographer and historian Marc Hermann took photographs of modern-day New York City locations and combined them with photos from the New York Daily News Archives– images which depict murders, suicides and fatal accidents in the exact same locations many decades earlier.
The vintage shots depict many scenes of tragedy – including crimes of passion, bloody gangland executions (some dating back to the late '20s), and the collision of two airliners in December 1960.
The project was inspired by Hermann's lifelong fascination with the dynamic history of the Big Apple: “New York is constantly changing and transforming, and tragedies that affected individuals’ lives are forgotten,” he explains. “We may stand on what was once the site of a horrific murder and not even know it, simply because life goes on.”
