Leap through time: from Past to Present Berlin in a single frame. The internationally renowned photographer Michael Wesely captures time and life in his photographs. In Doubleday, he explores the archaeological dimensions of photography by superimposing his own photographs precisely over historical views of Berlin architecture from the 19th and 20th centuries. This allows him to leap from the past to the present: 19th-century strollers on Alexanderplatz encounter today's tourists, ruins become visible beneath the reconstructed copies of the buildings and a park has taken the place of Monbijou Palace.