• briefly compares and contrasts the two bridges’ designs, environs, and how people choose to frame and depict the bridges in their photos
  • a notable point in where the bridges differ is the cable structuring attached to the supports. the Brooklyn bridge extends in a spiderweb-esque design from the the tops of the bridges arches while the Golden Gate bridges cables laterally descend from the the top cable that runs the length of the structure.
  • If we analyze the compositions of the photo’s depicting we can also see a difference in how they are viewed. It seems a favored method for photographers to shoot the internal structure of the bridge taking up the frame with its impressive web of wires. While the view for the Golden gate bridge tends towards the bridges profile, each taking the impressive attributes the structures hold. The Golden Gate Bridges awesome size and the Brooklyn bridges elegant complexity.
  • It’s also interesting to note the environment of the bridges. The brooklyn bridge connects city to city, it symbolizes a modernity. The Golden gate bridges strong iron structures  jut from the sprawling land into the ocean, the city a distant hint on the landscape, its becomes a things of nature.
• hypothesizes what the differences in the bridges reveal about the times in which they were built
  • i think the Brooklyn bridge is largely influenced by functionality.  built in the 1800’s , it says to me that the plethora of wire and stone structuring was used to create a lasting structure that would endure time and the growing population of the city.
  • The golden gate bridge, built later, to me says an aesthetic view was used in its design. The structure is confident in its durability with reduced amounts of cables. It has an openness that allows it to both blend the land while remaining impressive. The 1930’s , the decade in which the bridge was built saw an influx of technology, cars where gaining popularity what with the second wave of immigration on the heels of world war ones end.  I think it was built to illustrate the prosperity of California to arriving individuals as well as the rest of the country.
• hypothesizes what the persistence of these bridges (each has been renovated and reinforced, but not redesigned or replaced) suggests about the beliefs and/or values of New York City and San Francisco.
  • I think the persistence of the bridges are reinforced by there presence. The largess of structures strike a visual symbolism in the minds of those who witness it. It no longer is just a bridge or way of transportation but a landmark of the very country it resides in. It is what tourist flock to snapping pictures of their vacations, It is what locals base directions from and what textbooks imprint on there pages.  The bridges become an iconography that represents and identity for the places of there origin which is why i think they are protected from the constant evolution of societies.

https://www.engineeringthepast.com/424-2/