Then and Now Photos

Here are some of the best grandchildren attempts to mimic their grandmas and grandpas, and you'll be amazed by the amount of effort they've put into it. But it was definitely worth it. From visiting the same sights to wearing identical outfits, these people bonded with their ancestors on another level.

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How far does family resemblance actually go? With the help of a design crew and hefty amounts of makeup, Rachael Rifkin went to great lengths to find out.

Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace and Big Ben feature on new colour £5 coins, and they make great selfies.

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Dutch historian Jo Teuwisse creates these images by combining digitized photo negatives from the war with painstakingly framed photos of the same locations as they are today.

It's always amazing to see childhood photos of old people you know and see how they looked when they were our age (or younger). Sometimes they look almost identical, sometimes they look like 2 different people. Aging is something unpredictable and there is no real way to know how it's going to affect each face and what is going to be the 'final result'. In this interesting project, Jan Langer photographed 10 elderly people to match a photo taken of them 50-60 years earlier. Check out the…

The past inhabits the present in Marc A. Hermann’s composite images of crime scene photographs overlaid on their present day locations. Above: 497 Dean Street, Brooklyn. A distraught Edna Egbert battles the police on the ledge of her home. 427 1/2 Hicks Street, Brooklyn. Gangster Salvatore Santoro met a violent death on January 31, 1957. 923 44th Street, Brooklyn. Gangster Frankie Yale dead after a car crash, July 1, 1928. 137 Wooster Street, Manhattan. Six people were killed after a fire at…

"Looking into the past" pictures place past pictures in present day situations. Here's a collection of 75 examples of them.

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This photo documentary series created by Detroiturbex is astonishing. With their identities unannounced, this photographer(s) explore the abandonment of the city of Detroit, United States. This series, titled "Now and Then" captures and compare these photographed structures now left for abandonment, once occupied with life. This phenomenon has a long detailed history, and Detroiturbex specifically made this page in describing the background story behind his project. For more information…

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To “raise awareness of the social and economic challenges the city of Detroit,” the folks at Detroiturbex decided to tell the story about an abandoned Lewis Cass Technical High School with the help of superimposed then-and-now photos. First, they photographed every room the old Detroit school, which was abandoned after a 2007 fire. Then they put the pictures of the buzzing life from the past on top of them.