Until the release of the 500-yen coin in 1982, its corresponding paper equivalent reigned for more than 40 years in Japan. In fact, it wasn’t until 1994 that the 500-yen banknote was finally withdrawn from circulation.
One side of the note featured Tomomi Iwakura a Japanese statesman from the early Meiji period who played an […]. petapixel.com
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]
It was, for most of them, the first happy time in their lives, and for some, the last and only. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as part of his New Deal, penned the Civilian Conservation Corps into existence.
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.