Bernice Abbott Re-Photography Project

have always had a soft spot for re-photography projects. You know, where a contemporary photographer takes historically important pictures―often from a single photographer―and creates new images from the precise location of the originals. Re-photographs are typically shown in a comparataive format, often with the old and new on facing pages. They're a great index of cultural change.

Several projects have taken inspiration from 19th century landscape photographers, turning the modern versions into ironic commentary on the way the “hand of man” has intervened in the landscape.

Now you can check out an online version of Douglas Levere's re-photography of Berenice Abbott's remarkable “New York Changing” images. The book itself comes from Princeton Architectural Press. [A totally great little press, by the way. Order “You Are Here” sight unseen, and I promise you'll love it.]

Comments

[stefanos pantagis]

very cool: there is a similar project on display at soho photo gallery. its down in tribeca and they have very good shows: its run by about 100 members, all of whom really enjoy photography.

wonder if photobloggers can use MR to compare before and after.

here is the link with steve feiner who has also done alot of mr and ar work predating steve mann.

Link to columbia university ar lab

Been tinkering with doing simple pressure sore photography using comparametrics which would also be integrated into a clinical sousveillance system....how the skin was, then how it was damaged, and then how it healed as part of a personal glog. People are more and more like buildings as buildings become "smart" and as how the idividual becomes part of an architecture of one.

Love the re photography link

stef

[stef]

here is the link that touches on re photography from the feiner site

[cody]

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[cody]

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