Little Edie Bouvier Beale of Grey Gardens, 1937

It’s very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present. You know what I mean? It’s awfully difficult.
-Edith ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale

If you haven’t seen the 1972 documentary Grey Gardens, I recommend it:

The film depicts the everyday lives of the two Edith Beales, a reclusive socialite mother and daughter of the same name who lived at Grey Gardens, a decrepit mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York….The two women lived together at Grey Gardens for decades with limited funds, resulting in squalor and almost total isolation…

There’s a 1972 New York Magazine piece about the movie online: “Paradise Lost: A Gothic Tale of Wealth and Rebellion in East Hampton”

HistoryPin

Historypin is a like a digital time machine that allows people to view and share their personal history in a totally new way.

It uses Google Maps and Street View technology and hopes to become the largest user-generated archive of the world’s historical images and stories.

Historypin asks the public to dig out, upload and pin their own old photos, as well as the stories behind them, onto the Historypin map. Uniquely, Historypin lets you layer old images onto modern Street View scenes, giving a series of peaks into the past.

See also:

• CNN: Lining up the old and new
• Looking Into the Past pool on Flickr
• Richard McGuire’s classic comic, “Here.”
• NyTimes : THE BERLIN WALL: 20 YEARS LATER : A Division Through Time
• R Crumb’s Short History of America

via minorjive::vruz::peterfeld::historypin

“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror, we march backwards into the future.”
—Marshall McLuhan.

(Slide by Frank Chimero)

This reminds me of the Aymara, a tribe in the high Andes, who think of the past in front of them (it’s happened, they can see it) and the future behind them (it’s unknown).

Saul Steinberg, “Untitled,” 1970

See also:

Looking Into the Past pool on Flickr

Richard McGuire’s classic comic, “Here.”

NyTimes : THE BERLIN WALL: 20 YEARS LATER : A Division Through Time

This group is for images you make where some part of a modern day scene is overlapped by an old photograph. For example, you hold up an old photo so that you can see its place in the modern context.

The photography version of Richard McGuire’s classic comic, “Here.”

See also: NyTimes : THE BERLIN WALL: 20 YEARS LATER : A Division Through Time

Richard McGuire, “Here”