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Awesome. I've spent many hours checking these out in the past, particularly the group photos.
The way people look at cameras fascinates me; I love the way people used to pose, when cameras were newfangled, with this mixture of rigidity and unselfconsciousness that I wish I could master, myself. It's like they don't know what to look at.
Wouldn't it be cool to have an extended family (or meetup) photo, taken today, that you could put up next to one from way back when, and everybody looks modern but stands antiquely?
Hugh-It is strange how people pose. There is something about the newness of the technology, but also about the need to hold still for long exposures that both came together to produce that kind of effect.
These are cool. Way better than new virtual panorama stuff, which I like to some extent, too -- but these are better. I think it's in part the poses, like Hugh said, but also just in the way photos age. The 'biking' one for instance, the look and feel of the image captured is enhanced by the degradation of the materials used to present it. Very Nice.