Daniel House » Flickr http://danielhouse.com social media :: music :: movies :: random ephemera Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:21:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 The Past Meets the Present in Photographs http://danielhouse.com/the-past-meets-the-present-in-photographs.html http://danielhouse.com/the-past-meets-the-present-in-photographs.html#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:30:34 +0000 Daniel House http://danielhouse.com/?p=240

I recently discovered a Flickr pool entitled Looking into the Past, devoted to combining old B&W photos of locations and buildings from the past that then get dropped into the same location in the present day. This project was apparently inspired by one Jason Powell whose initial idea was to pay homage to another Flickr collection, Michael Hughes’ Souvenirs project. This has become now become something of a global phenomenon with over 50 photographers around the world contributing to the project. Below is a small selection of a few that I thought were particularly inspiring.

There are a few collections that curate a subset from the entire Flickr pool making it easier to see a quick “greatest hits” selection:

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