# Very cool: photos reproduced years later with same subject **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129 "2011-03-02T00:02:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/21 "2011-03-02T18:39:31Z")
I find the ones with kid-to-adult better than baby-to-adult, not because the former are creepy or anything. As a kid, your features really start to show up, and the comparison has some depth. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/22 "2011-03-02T18:40:23Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > For me, this is a project absolutely filled with the joy of life. > > Consider, anyone who’s pictured here has not only survived the interval, but has kept touch with their past _and_ kept enough of a sense of humor, or good-sportedness, to participate in this project, which was certainly more involved for the subjects than sitting for a simple portrait. These people have done all manner of things in their lives in the intervals, but I think they are all happy people. The shots of family together multiply this sense. I agree. Check out that link **Joey P** posted. So moving…look at the boys all grown up! ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/23 "2011-03-02T19:51:04Z")
“Hey kid, wanna see what you look like grown up?” “Sure!!” :eek: “Noooooooooooooo!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/24 "2011-03-02T20:34:51Z")
Thanks for posting those! I liked most of them, although some looked a little artificially sharp, as if there had been some Photoshopping or other image-tinkering going on. The one that really caught my eye was the one with the girl and the young woman standing on the base of the column, although some of the baby pictures were also iffy, to my eye, at least. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/25 "2011-03-02T20:56:42Z")
The teddy bear grew up too! ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/26 "2011-03-02T21:03:10Z")
Virtually all of the 2010 images have been processed various ways to achieve a print appearance similar to the originals. This is testament to the concept’s richness and the artist’s dedication, and not in any way a detraction. If anything, the one of “Lali” (base of column) in 2010 sticks out because it doesn’t match the original as well as most of them do; it wasn’t processed _enough_. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/27 "2011-03-02T21:05:17Z")
The fact that they were able to find adult versions of some of the clothes was incredible. I really liked these and wish I had some pictures that did this. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/28 "2011-03-02T22:10:30Z")
It reminds me of the Connels video clip of [75-74,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-ITv4OBV9c) which does sort of the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/29 "2011-03-03T01:00:28Z")
> [@QuarkChild](#): > > I wonder how he convinced the two adult brothers to get into a bathtub with each other. Fully clothed from the waist down? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/30 "2011-03-03T04:43:04Z")
I love these . . . especially “Lucia in 1956 & 2010, Buenos Aires.” It’s so interesting to see in how many ways people change, yet also remain the same. I have an x-rated pic of myself, taken when I was a baby. I will NOT be posing for that one again. ---
**Author:** ![Tess\_Trueheart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Tess\_Trueheart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess_Trueheart)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/31 "2011-03-03T08:54:29Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > [This](http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html) is another great example. I like to dig it up every year or so and look at it again. Normally I do it when a thread like this comes along. I remember this site! The mom changed her hair every year for quite some time! ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/32 "2011-03-03T12:19:19Z")
> [@Tess\_Trueheart](#): > > I remember this site! The mom changed her hair every year for quite some time! And have you seen that the sons started their own photo series? Click on the small arrow under the last photo. Eldest son is married with a baby of his own, Middleson has a wife or fiancee. Cool to see how the arrow of time continues… ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/33 "2011-03-03T12:58:15Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Someone did an amazing job editing the new pictures (which are likely digital) to make them look like the old ones. Hell, if you just glanced across the page, you might not even noticed the side by sides were different. > I like that the girl in the white t-shirt looks like she’s wearing exactly the same pair of boots in both pictures. > > ETA [This](http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html) is another great example. I like to dig it up every year or so and look at it again. Normally I do it when a thread like this comes along. That’s fascintaing. I think I’ll start doing this for me and Celtling. By any chance, do you know if that Mother left the Father in 1996? The emotion in all of these faces is just amazing. Especially the one with the gun. Int he first, he looks as if he wants to believe he can use it, in the second, he looks as if he wishes he never had. There’s a good short story in every one of these, ans I wonder how differently it would read according ot the life experience of the person looking st the pictures. The skateboard one is heart-wrenching. The boy looks so unhappy in the first,a nd the sadness is so real in the second, one can only think that thing snever got better for him. . . ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/34 "2011-03-03T15:39:24Z")
I am very grateful to have this brought to my attention. Inspiring. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/35 "2011-03-03T16:48:14Z")
Nice…the last photos interested me-they are color photos showing that odd yellowing effect. I have some old photos of my grandparents from the mid-1950’s, that show the same effect. Can this be removed by Photoshop? ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/36 "2011-03-03T17:01:24Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I have an x-rated pic of myself, taken when I was a baby. I will NOT be posing for that one again. Nit - high doubt it’s “x” rated, but more than likely “r” rated. AFAIK, “R” is for nudity, “X” is for explicit sexual activity. (Think “R” for “staRk naked” and “X” for “seX”) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/37 "2011-03-03T19:47:06Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Didn’t we have a thread about this just a few weeks ago? With the link broken due to the nudity? I searched. Admittedly my Google-Fu may have been weak. (My favorite is Dolores in “Flo, Maria and Dolores” - she has that look nailed). ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129/38 "2011-03-05T12:37:53Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Nice..the last photos interested me-they are color photos showing that odd yellowing effect. > I have some old photos of my grandparents from the mid-1950’s, that show the same effect. > Can this be removed by Photoshop? Yes, but likely not automatically. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-photos-reproduced-years-later-with-same-subject/573129.md?page=1)