Mixed Images...One Powerful Message
Look at this picture. Observe it very carefully. You can click on the pictures to isolate them and make them a little larger Yes, you see soldiers proceeding up a street, but notice that you are actually looking at two images…..one from World War II and another from more contemporary times of the same location. A historical mix…of sorts. Think about the impact this could have on students of history. Think about the connections that students could make between historical content and their surroundings. These pictures are the work of historical expert Jo Teeuwisse from Amsterdam. This article from the Daily Mail states she began superimposing images from different time periods of the same location after finding 300 old negatives at a flea market in her home city depicting familiar places in a very different context. Here is a second example of her work....... Like Miss Teeuwisse I think this process of making war scenes or any historical image have meaning by l...