Some intriguing images here, combining old photos into a current setting. Wanna try this with some of those local archive pics?
A few thoughts arise - the value of real physical prints - will those old jpegs inspire similar work? Of course it can be done with a couple of Photoshop layers but that's not the point.
I reckon this could be a very disturbing exercise esp. with the people pics.
It reminds me of that substance, Slow Glass - from a 1967 short story by Bob Shaw, which has always stuck in my memory.
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A few years ago I recall a website where you could drag a line like moving a curtain between past and present. I think it was in somewhere like Prague?
Flickr member "Roll the Dice" has a fascinating collection of old/new shots at the same London locations.
There's now an app for superimposition - Historypin, from this well-known site, which I've seen mentioned elsewhere on HoL:
If the HoL archive were added...
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