{"id":1190,"date":"2015-01-01T08:35:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T22:00:23","slug":"looking-forward-looking-back-rephotography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/01\/looking-forward-looking-back-rephotography\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking forward, looking back: Rephotography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rephotography\">Rephotography<\/a> is, per Wikipedia, &#8220;the act of repeat photography of the same site, with a time lag between the two images; a &#8216;then and now&#8217; view of a particular area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philmfotos.tumblr.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rephoto.jpg\" alt=\"rephoto\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1589\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rephoto.jpg 600w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rephoto-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some interesting examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/philmfotos.tumblr.com\/\">FILMography<\/a> is an ongoing art project by Canadian photographer Christopher Moloney that matches scenes from movies with their real-life, present-day locations. He has recreated film scenes in New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago, San Antonio, Orlando, Rome, Naples, Ischia and Ho Chi Minh City.&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dearphotograph.com\/\">Dear Photograph<\/a> is Taylor Jones&#8217;s comparative effort.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectrephoto.com\/projectRephoto\">Project rePhoto<\/a> is an iOS &#038; Android app that facilitates creating these compositions (see video below), though no one seems to have taken notice.<\/li>\n<li>Damien Hypolite <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/assassins-creeds-paris-vs-paris-2014-1664926658\">printed out screenshots from <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/a><\/em>, then held them up against modern Paris. [<a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2014\/11\/25\/printed-video-game-screenshots-creatively-juxtapose-1790s-modern-day-paris\/\">Via<\/a>]\n<\/li>\n<li>Nearby, Pierre Folk has created interesting juxtapositions in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2014\/08\/by-the-silent-line-pierre-folk\/\">documenting an abandoned Parisian railway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/fader.gif\" alt=\"Fader\" width=\"500\" height=\"398\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1587\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nG5-Heh63zA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nG5-Heh63zA\">YouTube<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rephotography is, per Wikipedia, &#8220;the act of repeat photography of the same site, with a time lag between the two images; a &#8216;then and now&#8217; view of a particular area.&#8221; Some interesting examples: &#8220;FILMography is an ongoing art project by Canadian photographer Christopher Moloney that matches scenes from movies with their real-life, present-day locations. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}