History Overlays
All photographs copyright 2024, Lee Barry. All rights reserved.
History Overlays, is an ongoing photography series in which photographs taken on the same day of the month are superimposed using the overlay mode in Photoshop. The superimposition is a kind of "double exposure", making history translucent, allowing us to see both the present and past simultaneously. If exhibited in a gallery, the images would be printed on glass, and hung so that the viewer can see through history while walking around the gallery space.
Winston Churchill once said, "The farther backward you look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” The challenge is to look at the future not along a straight line, but around the inevitable corners.
Winston Churchill once said, "The farther backward you look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” The challenge is to look at the future not along a straight line, but around the inevitable corners.