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Photographer Lets Us Travel Back In Time By Combining 20th Century Pictures With Modern Day Surroundings
Zoltan Kerenyi, a photographer from Hungary, recently drew the attention of the internet with his pictures that we can truly call a time capsule. By combining modern days with the feeling of nostalgia, Kerenyi has just opened a “Window to the Past”.
This is how his project is called – “Window to the Past”, or “Ablak a Múltra” in Hungarian. Kerenyi takes old photos from 20th century Budapest, that he finds in Fortepan archives, and superimposes them into his own modern-day shots, giving us a glimpse into the similarities and differences between the past and the present. He always depicts the exact same location, and the photographer actually spent more than two years perfectly aligning the pictures to make them as accurate as possible. The collection shows the beauty of Budapest’s landmarks combined with its rich history, so make sure to scroll down and see it for yourself!
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Amazon QT 7 years ago
Oh those pavers are cool, but today they are long gone and paved over with concrete. 😳😞
Thinairgal 7 years ago
They really are cool. No fun in heels, though, which it looks like she might be wearing...while walking a dog.
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Kirsa Rasmussen 7 years ago
it's a photographer photographing photographers photographing, to put the photographi under a photographi of photographers photographing...
Brent Kaufman 7 years ago
The reason that they were the greatest generation is that they didn't need guardrails at lookout points.
Mylah Rose 7 years ago
Actually the reason there were no guardrails in the older photos is that they were all removed so that the metal could go towards the war effort for planes etc. You can see the holes in the wall where they were removed. You can also see this along the front of most houses build before the war in the whole of the UK, a lot still have the gaps where the railings were, most were never replaced except for at high points like this!!
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There is no railing around the circle viewing area!
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Jim Pickens 7 years ago
i love that the dog in the newer picture is looking at the dog cycling in the older picture
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Thinairgal 7 years ago
I agree! My first thought was "What ever happened to our sense of style and class?" These ladies are showing how it's done.
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Char Char 7 years ago
I believe so! Pretty darn funny for the "olden times"
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Brent Kaufman 7 years ago
In the olden days the men had rickets and had to stay 3 feet away from women whose skirts rose above the knee.
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Kenny Kulbiski 7 years ago
Those old steam trains were dirty, noisy, and polluting. They were also alive and had a certain mystique that's missing today.
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Ged Maybury 7 years ago
Thanks. I missed that. you can see the place it was soon to be planted.
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Brent Kaufman 7 years ago
I know kids. I know. I've been trying to get your great grandfather to paint and fix the cracks in the staircase, outside, since the last time the lake was bio-toxin free. But he was sooooo busy on tour in Vaudeville.
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Sabe Gummies Noise 7 years ago
this photo...is my preferite...Burgher King....and the WAR. amazing....
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Kenny Kulbiski 7 years ago
My thoughts exactly. You just know there's a story there.
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Tamara Jessup 7 years ago
I love how both photos illustrate the importance of family togetherness. ♥
Ged Maybury 7 years ago
It's *definitely* Budapest. I'm finding all these spots on Google Maps.
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Ged Maybury 7 years ago
Something I've noticed is how much restoration has been done to these old buildings. They looked disgusted back in time. (All cities had this - from coal smoke pollution)
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Laugh Fan 7 years ago
I don't think it is. The nose doesn't look quite big enough for Hitchcock. Hitchcock also had big ears. I don't know what year this photo was taken but I think this guy might also be a tad too old and not quite fat enough (sorry Hitch).
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John-Neal Roberts 7 years ago
Check out the building in the background. It's the same :-)
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Miert Lindboe 7 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherman%27s_Bastion
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Thinairgal 7 years ago
This one doesn't work as well as the others for me. The buildings match up, but the couple, however charming, are just oversized, disembodied heads.
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Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 7 years ago
Well, he probably shouldn't have opened the suitcase. Everything just went wrong from there when the magical beasts escaped.
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Kocsis Anna 7 years ago
Nope, the statues where just a temporary decoration in 1919 for the 1st of may parade. On the right, that's Karl Liebknecht on the left Lenin. The buildings, on the other hand, are the same ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Soviet_Republic
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Pierre Tomas 7 years ago
..that lady on the left looks like she just walked out of the old photo heh.. before and after
Jazmin Mezei 7 years ago
The sign says "hospital workers", but I can't figure out what the first word might be... Probably the name of the hospital
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Ged Maybury 7 years ago
I think the ultimate would be to locate that girl as she is now, and bring her back to the same spot, maybe sitting upon the barrel at the left. Get to it!!
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Thinairgal 7 years ago
If I cover the top of the old pic with a finger and focus hard on the door for several seconds, the edges blur away and it truly looks like one picture. Is it just me?
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Alexandru Bucur 7 years ago
This looks like a Honvéd regiment during the early 1890s, because the weapons are Mannlicher M.1888 which were replaced by the Mannlicher M.1895, while those uniforms would be replaced in 1908. Since the maximum age for military service was raised from 42 during peacetime to 55 during the war, I wonder how many of them survived WW1...
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Kocsis Anna 7 years ago
Unfortunately, this wasn't just war, in 1965 they blew up the whole building (This was the old Hungarian National Theater) because of the underground constructions for the metro line...
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Kocsis Anna 7 years ago
This is around 1860 the construction of the first underground line in Budapest, Andrassy street.
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Amy Begun Saab 7 years ago
Absolutely amazing! I cannot begin to imagine how much time it took to do this!! Worth it!!
Aunt Messy 7 years ago
A gallery in our neighbourhood has an exhibit on right now where the photographer has done EXACTLY the same thing. I always find it interesting to see the changes.
Agnes Jekyll 7 years ago
So well done! Love these! Would also love dates (of both) and location
Amy Begun Saab 7 years ago
Absolutely amazing! I cannot begin to imagine how much time it took to do this!! Worth it!!
Aunt Messy 7 years ago
A gallery in our neighbourhood has an exhibit on right now where the photographer has done EXACTLY the same thing. I always find it interesting to see the changes.
Agnes Jekyll 7 years ago
So well done! Love these! Would also love dates (of both) and location
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