20 These breathtaking “Before and Now” photos of locations will help you understand the effects of time
Rephotography, the practice of taking historical photographs of places in their present condition, provides a novel approach to evaluating how time has affected a place. Images from the past and the present can be compared to reveal how much and little has changed. Vintage Photographs In Real Life, a community on Reddit, offers amazing side-by-side photos that highlight these contrasts. See a few of their most stunning images below.
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#1 2022-2022 My hometown Kharkiv in Ukraine
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#2 Poland’s Manufaktura, ód (1994 And 2014)
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#3 Remodeling Before and After
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#4 For 104 years, Elsie Allcock has resided in the same home
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#5 My grandfather’s restored World War II Hurricane Let Me Fly Today!
![](https://bluekingo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/5-4.jpeg)
#6 Germany’s Düsseldorf, from 1990 to 2019
![](https://bluekingo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/6-4.jpeg)
#7 Lake Mead 1983 versus 2021
![](https://bluekingo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/7-3.jpeg)
#8 “A Canoe Tree Cut By The Early Humans, Almost Probably. 130 years separate these striking images of a river red gum tree
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#9 (1950s-Semi Recent) 9 The Pines, Fallsburg, NY
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#10 View of Central Park in New York City looking toward The Beresford Building, 1932–2022
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#11 Polish Home Left In Ruins After Being Abandoned. Yet, it has now been made beautiful again
![](https://bluekingo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/11-3.jpeg)
#12 From Forgotten To This
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#13 The Crooked House, also known as The Glynne Arms
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#14 Warsaw City Center, 1944/2022, page
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#15 San Francisco’s 15 unluckiest homes between 1936 and 2022
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#16 Michigan Central Railroad Terminal, Detroit, Waiting Area (1965 And 2014)
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#17 From 1982 and 2022, 17 Crater Lake
![](https://bluekingo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/17-3.jpeg)
#18 Before-And-After Images Of Renovations Done To Abandoned Buildings
![](https://bluekingo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/18-3-686x1024.jpeg)
#19 Japan’s 19 Minami-Sanriku, 2011 vs. 2020
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#20 One of the New 7 Wonders of the World: Machu Picchu, Peru, 1915/2020
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Rephotography provides a distinctive viewpoint on how objects and locations may change over time. These pictures demonstrate the effects of both natural and human intervention, emphasizing how even the most well-known places may change over time.