Random Excellence: Bobby Neel Adams

I'm fascinated with photographs that show the way things change over time. Bobby Neel Adams creates what he called "AgeMaps":

Bobby [the artist] at age 36 and 6

...which combine pictures of the same person at different ages; and, in a series he calls "FamilyTree," he combines pictures of different family members into one:

Wendy (age 60) and daughter Liza (age 23)

A portfolio is online at The Forward Thinking Museum.

Mike

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Comments

[Kevin Purcell]

Is tearing and reassembling family photos a trend?

e.g. Petapixel mentioned this yesterday

http://www.vickithai.com/familyphotographs.html

Is there a Photoshop plugin for this yet? :-)

[Tom]

Gimmicky. Like dogs underwater. Fair play for a new approach in the face of global unapproachable odds, but no. Wouldn't hang em.

[Zeeman]

Is the black and white one a collage of two traditional (wet darkroom) prints, or a print on a single sheet, using some other compositing technique?

I've seen this sort of concept executed as a sped-up slideshow of photos from different ages, but I haven't seen composites like this before. This is special.

[Dave Kee]

The word grotesque comes to mind.

[Sven W]

Too creepy for me! Move over Diane Arbus ;)

[Jeffrey Goggin]

I agree with Sven ... there is definitely a creepiness aspect to many of these photos.

[Will Whitaker]

Weird. Makes them look like stroke victims.