Visual Sociology

After the lecture by Jon Rieger last class, I decided to do some research of my own house and neighborhood over the last twenty years. I leafed through my family photo albums and found a couple of photographs I could re-take to talk about the change in my home and neighborhood over the last 20 years. This project is very incomplete, I could spend forever looking through all of the photographs of my house and street and retaking them, but here are a couple I did take the time to put together.

The first photos are both from 1992, the second photos are fron 2012. I tried to find some from 2002, but we don't have as many photographs from that time period.

My mom probably won't be happy to see the top photo comparison, she hasn't done her spring gardening yet, and in general my parents are so busy they don't have the time and energy to garden and landscape as much as they did when we were younger. Also, the seasons in the photos are different, and so are the weather conditions. From these, it makes the neighborhood look extremely bleak. It's true that the neighborhood is not as lively as it used to be, but these photos are a bit misleading.