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Lahore - General view of railway station, 1895 and 1995
| Can two photographs measure the changes in a place? |
| The railway station has been altered. There is a new entry facade. The towers have been squared and clocks added. The country is independent. The horse drawn carriages have changed a little, though they are now confined to a smaller part of the city. The Punjabis in front of the station have barely adjusted their turbans. The tree is the same. It has just rained in both photographs, even if the light and mood are different. |
| Jackson was fond of this photograph. In his autobiography Time Exposure, written forty years after his visit, he wrote: |
| "At Lahore, where we made a short stop on February 3, the weather was too bad to permit satisfactory photography about town, and I confined my camera activities to the fortified railway station. That, as much as anything I saw, brought me close to the realization that Anglo-India was still a thin cover on top of a volcano." |
