macquarie street

From a Max Dupain photo taken around 1946 on the steps of the NSW Treasury Building in Macquarie St, opposite the Botanical Gardens.

Sixty years later from the steps of what's now the Intercontinental Hotel. That lamp's got its glass cover back, like most downtown streets now the parking spaces have been removed and the pavement widened - the original kerb's visible -, those date palms are still there just taller, and colour has been invented. Though without that foreground shadow and silhouette the composition's not so picturesque.