Starting about 40 years ago, photographer Chris Porsz began shooting street portraits of strangers he met in his hometown of Peterborough in England. For the past few years, Porsz has been tracking down those subjects and asking them to pose for recreations of those decades-old photos.
The ambitious project is titled Reunions. Some of the […]. petapixel.com
A photographer and filmmaker who had $24,000 worth of camera equipment stolen from his car has slammed San Francisco police for doing nothing about the fencing operation his gear was taken to. [Read More] petapixel.com »
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In the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, street photographer Chris Porsz spent hours walking around the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (Great Britain), capturing hundreds of amazing characters. Now, almost 40 years later, Porsz has tracked down those same people to recreate their pics, resulting in 135 beautiful reunions. boredpanda.com »
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Photographer Steve Birnbaum has been recreating music history by photographing images of musicians and bands in the exact location where they were originally photographed.
The day after photography was invented in 1839, somebody pointed out that the photographs were just shades of gray – there was no color. The photography inventors knew this was a problem and probably hoped that no one would notice.
Every place in the world has a history. To understand it in the present you need some knowledge of its past. The history of the earth can be read from its rocks; the history of life, from the evolutionary histories and relationships of its species. [Read More]
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To mark 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, we revisited the precise locations of 14 memorable photos taken when half of the city lay behind the Iron Curtain. The Reichstag in 1962, as seen from behind a ragged barbed-wire fence that would become the Berlin Wall. Before the barrier’s construction in 1961, […]
Dutch artist Ard Gelinck has been working on an ongoing “then and now” project in which he uses Photoshop to create portraits of famous people posing with their younger selves. Richard Gere Tina Turner Justin Timberlake Michael Jackson Lady Gaga Ellen DeDeneres Elton John Harrison Ford Paul McCartney Sylvester Stallone Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Clint […]
Want to see how the city of San Francisco has transformed over the past century? Here’s a neat set of then-and-now photos showing old shots of The City by the Bay next to modern pictures shot in the same locations.