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Once Upon A Time; Spectacular Images Of Cities Over Time

A Reddit Community Shares Interesting Pictures Of Re-Photographing Old Pictures With Its Users. By Looking At These Pictures, You Can Notice The Small And Large Changes Of Places Over Time.

Re-photography repeats the photography of the same place with a time gap between the two images. These images provide a fascinating insight into the passage of time and its effect on the world.

Some of these types of images are very ordinary in terms of artistic expression; They are usually taken from the same point of view, but no effort is made to recreate the mood and energy of the original photo. Among these, some images are produced very accurately.

Below you can see exciting examples of re-photographs from different cities published in the Old Photos In Real Life subreddit.

Photographing cities over time

The 1980s and today. Hikmat Kaya forestry in Turkey.

Photographing cities over time

Three towers in Ray city of Iran. It Took The first photo of the year in 1840.

Photographing cities over time

Harlemerdijk Street in Amsterdam, Netherlands (1971 and 2020)

Photographing cities over time

Photographing cities over time

Transferring the highway to the basement and replacing it with green space. (1990 and 2010)

Photographing cities over time

1910 The great flood of Paris

Photographing cities over time

Youngstown in 1951

Photographing cities over time

Roman Theater of Cartagena, Spain. 1991 and now

Photographing cities over time

A house in Lillington, New York.

Photographing cities over time

Photographing cities over time

Poznań’s Old Square. World War II and now

Photographing cities over time

Positano, Italy. 1920 and 2020

Photographing cities over time

Butchery Alley in Canterbury. 1895, 1920, 1992 and 2022

Photographing cities over time

Verdun battlefield 1916, France.

Photographing cities over time

Manhattan in 1851 and today.

Photographing cities over time

Flat Iron Building, Toronto. 1895

Photographing cities over time

Torun, Poland.

Photographing cities over time

Loket, Czech Republic. 1900 and 2019

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We hope you enjoyed watching these pictures. What do you think about these changes? Have you ever tried reshooting an old photo?