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Go Start This New Global Photoblog, Okay?

Hey, can someone please start a photoblog that’s about rephotographing, on a global scale? Something that takes a look at familiar and famous photographs, and accounts how they’ve been rephotographed, since? It’d be an easy enough task, on tumblr or wordpress. I’ve seen quite a few posts over the years around the topic, and shoot, there’s even a Wiki page to get you started!

Blake has a new one of Shore/Ulrich. I saw a few over here awhile ago. There’s a Jeff Wall one, and one of my own from a few years ago of a Shore picture from El Paso, below. There are larger projects, like the Bernice Abbott “New York Changing” project and there’s the Kertesz train that appeared in Genius of Photography.

I haven’t seen a comprehensive, myopically obsessed gathering of these. Anyone willing to bet whether this is being tackled already on flickr? Let us/me know! If you start the thing, please leave a comment so we can keep an eye on what you find.

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Wayne Mar 18 2009 / 11am

I put one up about Robert Frank, see here.

bryanF. Mar 18 2009 / 11am

You could even start a group blog on Tumblr. Easy enough, that way you can crowdsource the work and try to build it collectively.

much easier with 15-20 people than just one….

another idea. have a few major cities set up a blog with a few memorable photographs and locations for each. then when other photographers visit, they can go to those spots re-photograph them.

it’d be interesting to see the process multiplied a few times. and i’m saying this as someone who doesn’t particularly enjoy typology

Mark Tucker Mar 18 2009 / 5pm

something similar, in a way:

Michael Williamson, in the footsteps of Walker Evans and Bill Agee, from “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”:

http://www.sevenstories.com/book/index.cfm/GCOI/58322100757560

Rephotographing concept.

hkki Mar 22 2009 / 2pm

nice idea

MDM Mar 23 2009 / 3pm

Here’s more. A paintings vs. googstreetview mash-up:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/mar/20/canvas-tate-landscapes-google-street-view?picture=344845167

blake Mar 24 2009 / 2pm

I think any such list should include Christopher Rauschenberg’s project Rephotographing Atget. Some of the photos are here: http://www.lensculture.com/rauschenberg.html

More are in the book published by Princeton Architectural Press:
http://www.amazon.com/Paris-Changing-Revisiting-Eugene-Atgets/dp/1568986807/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237923016&sr=8-1

I think he rephotographed about 500 of Atget’s photos in total. It’s an amazing project.

richard Mar 25 2009 / 10pm

go to flickr and search atget groups and photos. There is a group which has people that have gone all around paris and re-photographed spots that Atget photographed. There is even a book out I think so that if you are ever in paris you can visit Atgets photographed spots. With a map and all!

Michael David Murphy Mar 27 2009 / 2pm

Akin:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonepowell/sets/72157613841045343/

Gary Shrimpling Apr 07 2009 / 4pm

Crabs and People by Chris Killip.

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