Saturday, October 20, 2012

Ghosts of war: Artist superimposes World War II photographs onto modern pictures of the same street scenes | Mail Online

Ghosts of war: Artist superimposes World War II photographs onto modern pictures of the same street scenes
| Mail Online
 
This haunting collection of images shows what it would look like if the ghosts of World War II returned to our streets.
The remarkable pictures overlay modern scenes from France with atmospheric photographs taken in the same place during the war.
Historical expert Jo Teeuwisse, from Amsterdam, began the project after finding 300 old negatives at a flea market in her home city depicting familiar places in a very different context.
 Dangerous crossing: Soldiers race up Avenue de Paris in Cherbourg in 1944, speeding past the rubble and over modern-day road markings

Really awesome stuff here. Go and have a look!
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2 comments:

  1. BuckSaturday, October 20, 2012 12:20:00 PM

    I saw similar work done with Russian street scenes, mainly in St. Petersburg/Leningrad, and prolly by the same artist. Strangely enough, a friend sent me the link to the Daily Mail in e-mail today. This work is striking a chord with a LOT o' people.

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  2. Glenn Mark CasselSunday, October 21, 2012 8:29:00 AM

    I think it is awesome to see this.

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