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In this ongoing project, photographer Irina Werning takes old photos and gets the people in them to reenact the shot years later. BACK TO THE FUTURE : Irina Werning I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today… A few months ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future. (via Irina Werning)

In this ongoing project, photographer Irina Werning takes old photos and gets the people in them to reenact the shot years later.

BACK TO THE FUTURE : Irina Werning

I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today… A few months ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future.

(via Irina Werning)

2 notes #photos #photography #people #history #fun

Nov1

Hockey’s Most Decorated - Slide Show Gerry Cheevers of the Boston Bruins in May 1978. The first decorated mask belonged to Bruins goalie Cheevers, who drew stitches on all of the places he was struck in the face. The first were drawn by the Bruins’ trainer, Frosty Forristall, after a practice in 1968. So resonant was this mask that it inspired the punk band Chixdiggit’s 1996 paean to lost love, “(I Feel Like) Gerry Cheevers (I Got Stitch Marks on My Heart).” (photo by Associated Press via NYTimes.com)

Hockey’s Most Decorated - Slide Show

Gerry Cheevers of the Boston Bruins in May 1978.

The first decorated mask belonged to Bruins goalie Cheevers, who drew stitches on all of the places he was struck in the face. The first were drawn by the Bruins’ trainer, Frosty Forristall, after a practice in 1968. So resonant was this mask that it inspired the punk band Chixdiggit’s 1996 paean to lost love, “(I Feel Like) Gerry Cheevers (I Got Stitch Marks on My Heart).”

(photo by Associated Press via NYTimes.com)

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Oct5

Excerpts from an astounding archive In this eerie photograph of a Cuban prison, inmate after inmate stands silhouetted in a semicircle of stacked cells. They are posed there, backlit, perhaps to demonstrate the buildings utilitarian design. First conceived by philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century, the so-called panopticon prison design allows a single guard to keep watch on hundreds of confined men while staying in an armored perch, out of the prisoner’s sight. The cells in the prison pictured here do not have doors, though presumably armed guards would have been a deterrent against any escape attempt. Many prisons, including Alcatraz, were designed to remove a convict’s privacy in favor of control, but full incorporations of Bentham’s idea are a rarer find (The Burns Archive). (via Photoblog)

Excerpts from an astounding archive

In this eerie photograph of a Cuban prison, inmate after inmate stands silhouetted in a semicircle of stacked cells. They are posed there, backlit, perhaps to demonstrate the buildings utilitarian design. First conceived by philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century, the so-called panopticon prison design allows a single guard to keep watch on hundreds of confined men while staying in an armored perch, out of the prisoner’s sight. The cells in the prison pictured here do not have doors, though presumably armed guards would have been a deterrent against any escape attempt. Many prisons, including Alcatraz, were designed to remove a convict’s privacy in favor of control, but full incorporations of Bentham’s idea are a rarer find (The Burns Archive).

(via Photoblog)

#photography #cuba #the burns archive #photos #history

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