There's something fun in the viewing about comparing images of the same place at different times, kind of like "can you find the hidden objects?" in a Highlights magazine (or I forget where now). Treasure hunts and puzzles are fun. These two photos are of different times, but just how different? Black and white gives way to color, which seems to be the point in at least two or three different ways. One, the photo print itself has shifted quality and, therefore, form. The subjects, of course, which perhaps points to the third, one of multiplicity in the present. Except for the assumed present, the color print shows a single person, absorbed in her moment, absorbed in the act of consumption. In the black and white, there is no there. The bulk of both these are in reflection which thereby privileges a past, a historical one where it's hard not to start thinking about what has really changed in these moments, whether by seconds, days, or years. Whatever the case, as I already said, it's a fun game to play, to wonder about such things through such comparisons.
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