Definitions
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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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Examples
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Then, after the digital revolution, "straight" rephotography lost its appeal.
Duchamp Redux Richard B. Woodward 2011
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Computational rephotography is a fancy name for photos taken from the exact same viewpoint as an old photograph.
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Computational rephotography is a fancy name for photos taken from the exact same viewpoint as an old photograph.
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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.
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Filed under photographs, recreating history, rephotography
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Filed under photographs, recreating history, rephotography
Youngme/Nowme 2008
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Filed under photographs, recreating history, rephotography
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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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
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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.
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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.
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