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  • noun A form of photography in which the same site is photographed at two separate points in time, "then and now".

Etymologies

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re- +‎ photography

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Examples

  • Then, after the digital revolution, "straight" rephotography lost its appeal.

    Duchamp Redux Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • Computational rephotography is a fancy name for photos taken from the exact same viewpoint as an old photograph.

    Computational Rephotography Lets You See Into The Past 2010

  • Computational rephotography is a fancy name for photos taken from the exact same viewpoint as an old photograph.

    Computational Rephotography Lets You See Into The Past 2010

  • Her rephotography of Edward Weston's and Walker Evans's photographs, presented as her own work, was a deeply serious and funny joke about the nature of originality in art, a reductio ad absurdum of the truism that pictures are made out of other pictures.

    The Original Artistic Recyclers 2009

  • Filed under photographs, recreating history, rephotography

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • Filed under photographs, recreating history, rephotography

    Youngme/Nowme 2008

  • Filed under photographs, recreating history, rephotography

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • She was a founding member of the Pictures Generation, and her fellow travelers, where rephotography was concerned, included Richard Prince and Barbara Kruger.

    NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2011

  • As an application on a camera, a rephotography aid could analyze the original photo and instruct the photographer how to shift the camera to best match the view.

    HappyNews - Top Stories 2008

  • As an application on a camera, a rephotography aid could analyze the original photo and instruct the photographer how to shift the camera to best match the view.

    HappyNews - Top Stories 2008

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