Looking Into The Past: Fun With Archived Photos

April 3, 2009 in Art,Philadelphia,Photography with 2 Comments

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I am in love with this idea. Inspired by Michael Hughes’ hilarious Souvenirs photo project (do check this out), Jasone Powell has started a series called ‘Looking Into The Past’.

Images are made by finding old photographs of places, printing them out, and then holding the print up in the modern day location that the original photograph was taken. So far, all historical images have been available for free at the Library of Congress.

He’s created a group on Flickr for this project, for those of you shooting your own.

This sort of thing is PERFECT for us folks living here in Philadelphia, what with awesome websites like Philly History and all. We have tons of archival photography from all around the city.

Who’s up for a little photography fun? The weather is warm and the city is waiting.

Speaking of looking into the past, looking back at Geekadelphia’s post archive today, I realized that this post is the 1000th post on the website. Awesome. Thanks for reading, everyone!

Looking Into The Past via Reddit

About Eric: Eric spends most of his time writing, taking pictures, reading, and hanging out with his (somewhat famous) chinchilla Mittens and bunny Rory. He teaches writing and literature at some local Philadelphia colleges and works in publishing. He knows absolutely nothing about sports, and is proud of it.

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2 Responses to “Looking Into The Past: Fun With Archived Photos”

  1. andipantz April 3, 2009 at 9:03 am #

    Cool stuff!

  2. Carolyn April 3, 2009 at 10:37 am #

    The Free Library also has a great archive of historical photos of the city…you can find the archive at http://libwww.freelibrary.org/hip/.

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