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History breaking through [updated]
posted by Rob on July 31, 2010 10:24 AM
Supposedly a picture is worth approx 1k words. That may or may not be an accurate assessment, but I can vouch for the fact that the right picture can trigger a whole cartload of ideas - a whole screenplay of them in fact. When I look at these I can imagine them as stills from a cool sci-fi film - one I'd like to see, if it existed. Take a look. It's modern colour photographs of iconic locations with photoshopped portals opened into dramatic, B&W moments from the past. [source]
Thanks to commenter Haarlson below. Here is one of his shots of the stirring public photo project in Barcelona he mentions. Go here for more of his photos.
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This is why Europe is so interesting to me - everything stays the same for 700 years. Not so in the U.S.
Posted by: KatharineC on July 31, 2010 12:44 PM
Rob, I always wondered why the Armed Forces wore trousers like that back in the day. You know - the ones that seem to balloon out at the hips? Less than practical during trench warfare, one would have thought...
Posted by: WayneSimmons on July 31, 2010 07:29 PM
Wayne, I don't know, but I'd always assumed the baggy-trousered guys were with the armored divisions and so it was the legacy of cavalry attire. But maybe they just liked having really big pockets.
Posted by: Rob on August 3, 2010 01:44 PM
Interesting. Memorial Democratic, here in Barcelona, have taken this notion a step further and erected photo plinths in the street. Titled Repression & Resistance it's a fascinating documentary photography project.
At 12 sites across the city centre there are near life-size photographs mounted on substantial plinths. Each plinth shows a real-life scene from the dark days of Francoist inspired repression
The plinths are erected on exactly the spot where the depicted event took place. So, for example, in the middle of our paseo we now have a stark black and white photo of half a dozen riot police whacking hell out of a petrified group of locals cowering in a huddle on the floor. At the junction of Gran de Gràcia, Diagonal and Passeig de Gràcia there is a photo of riot police armed with tear-gas firing rifles. On the steps of te cathedral there's a photo of Franco in an open-top car etc etc
Here's a link to a flick'r gallery of the photo project: http://www.flickr.com/photos/51243562@N08/?saved=1.
Regards.
Posted by: Haarlson Phillipps on August 5, 2010 12:01 PM