Looking Into The Past

Posted by Queuebot in Pictures on June 8, 2009 at 8:34 pm



Photo: XsuperflyX [Flickr]

In this Flickr pool titled Looking Into the Past, people hold out old pictures of their homes or neighborhods and overlap them with the current structures as background to create fascinating "then and now" collages.

At first I thought there was no way it was real, just some dandy Photoshopping. The closer I got though, I think they’re legit, although a few are suspect. They are from different people, and looks like they all congregate on Flickr to share. Pretty rad. I’m so happy I don’t have a stack of old photos from my neighborhood. I might not get anything done the next few days. “Why is that guy standing in the middle of the street taking pictures of his hand?”

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7 comments to "Looking Into The Past"

  1. Jim R Feliciano
    June 9th, 2009 at 12:21 am

    This is such a great idea. I have to go out and see what I can do in San Francisco

  2. chance
    June 9th, 2009 at 1:05 am

    That is Oregon State University, Waldo hall. My alma mater!! People say it's haunted on the fourth floor.

  3. Foreigner1
    June 9th, 2009 at 1:47 am

    These pictures have a Ghostly quality about them.- Like the past still somehow exists there and there is ... like a ...magic frame... that can give a peek into such pasts.

    Wonderful.
    What incredible times do we live in.

  4. Tempscire
    June 9th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    Oooh, I love this muchly. I always like to try to imagine older places (and all the people passing through) as they were back in the day.

  5. maxwell
    June 9th, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    reminds me of richard mcguire's "Here" comics from Raw Magazine and other publications. also made into a short film in 1991: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57hR44mB5u0

  6. Keith Shirley
    June 10th, 2009 at 4:07 am

    I found two videos of Carlow, Ireland done in a similar way and wrote about them on my blog in case anyone is interested:

    http://www.keithshirley.ie/blog/2008/11/07/carlow-past-and-present-a-w onderful-video/

  7. renderanything
    June 11th, 2009 at 12:26 am

    Wow, I do this same thing sometimes with Google Earth and Shorpy.com Amazing that sometimes a great old building with history now houses a Subway or pawn shop.


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