Back to the future

[Chris Dodkin]

Ever wonder when you look at an old photo of someone, what they'd look like today - in the same location, the same clothes.

Today's body in the old photo...

Well, Irina Werning, a photographer from Buenos Aires, has been doing exactly that - taking those old photo's, and recreating new shots with the same clothes, location, props, look etc

Amazing work:

http://irinawerning.com/back-to-the-fut/back-to-the-future/

 

[Pete Askew]

What an interesting idea (although being brought up in the 60's and 70' I'm not too sure I'd want a recreation done!).

 

[Hamish Gill]

I love this! its so good how accurate the re-creations are!!

 

[Ralph Thornton]

It is an interesting idea. Very nice recreations.

 

[Mark Grant]

A great idea and good photos.

I have been doing similar with old postcards of holiday destinations I have been to.
Buy old black and white postcards of places that mean something to me on ebay etc, http://collectables.shop.ebay.co.uk/Postcards-/914/i.htm

Then try to create a modern version of the same view.

I will scan some eventually and put them on a gallery website when it is ready

 

[Mark Grant]

A quick example I just found.

An old postcard on ebay: ( I have this one at home)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/P6259-Spain-p...436?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53dee87764

I found the location and took a snapshot while on holiday:

The 'square' where the ' font del gal' is located is here on google maps:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=39.877864,3.01609&spn=0.001861,0.003082&t=h&z=19

In the middle of the map near where it says ' @HUMA06' are 5 white sun umbrellas, a cafe uses the square during the tourist season as an outdoor seating area, its lovely

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Now that's quite some detective work Mark - amazing!

 

[Ralph Thornton]

Here's one I've been working on.

Over the years the glaciers in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA, as well as the glaciers worldwide, have shrunk or disappeared. I've been volunteering with the United States Geological Survey to document how much change there has been to these glaciers. We attempt to find the precise location from which the original historic photograph was made and take a new photo of the same view.

Last year was my first year on the project. We had some bad luck. The spring of 2010 was quite cool and numerous late season snowstorms added to the previous winter's snow pack. Then, just when most of the previous winter's snow had melted (which was in late August) the park got several new snowstorms.

This is a 1914 view of Clements Glacier in Glacier National Park. The photograph was taken well off of any road or trail. Clements Glacier is the small glacier left of center.

Here is the 2010 duplication of the 1914 original. While it shows some of the late summer 2010 snow, the glacier has disappeared completely. We'll try to get a version this summer without the end of summer snows.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Love seeing how things have changed over time - fascinating

 

[Hamish Gill]

how amazing that 2 people on here were already doing something similar ...
i used to take the same view out of the my nans flat window ... every year you could see a little bit less cliff top ...
nothing to show you though all old film photos in a box somewhere ....