I was reading David DuChemin’s blog about comparisons, and realized I had a good example. David said that one method of making more interesting photographs is to have comparisons in it. In the photograph below, we have the new and the old.
Here we have an example of two restoration projects. We have an extra piece of the Statue of Liberty restoration. We also have one of the restricted blocks of the infectious disease hospital at Ellis Island.
Think of the frustration that someone would have had. As an example, one of the Italian translators would only be able to speak one dialect of Italian while the prospective immigrants would have spoken only one of hundreds. If you or your child was found to be infected, and you were unlucky to not speak the dialect that the translator did, you might be isolated without being able to understand why. It led to folks being locked away in one of these blocks if they became violent.