Comments on: Age Maps - photo surgery

Age Maps - photo surgery

madamjujujive — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:34:50 -0800

Age Maps - photographer Bobby Neele Adams fuses two photos of the same person from different points in their life, with an unsettling effect. He uses the same technique for couples, a unique portrait idea for you all you coupled Mefites. (nsfw, bare breasts) His Broken Wings series is also worth noting.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:48:26 -0800

Hey, it's Sloth!

By: ashbury

ashbury — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:53:00 -0800

They all look like creations of Dr. Frankenstein. It's kind of creepy, actually.

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:59:45 -0800

My eyes, they burn! Too nightmarish to sleep tonight! Sleep-ease, here I come!

By: fvw

fvw — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:01:24 -0800

Some of those are really quite amazing, thanks for the link. Don't quite get the frankenstein/nightmare reactions though, I think they're rather beautiful.

By: Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:17:40 -0800

These creep the hell out of me.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:19:42 -0800

creepy, but really good--thanks!

By: PigAlien

PigAlien — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:54:25 -0800

I think it would be even more interesting if he took photos of people's corpses and combined them with their ultrasounds.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:06:47 -0800

Meh ...I've seen better photoshop works that seem much more beautiful and to the point to me. Learn your tools baby !

By: fenriq

fenriq — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:25:52 -0800

I think they're really quite cool looking. Yes, they're creepy but that's alright, I'm pretty sure they can't steal my soul just by looking at them. elpapacito, part of the attraction is the jagged line breaking the two photos apart. Its not about making a seamless break. Side note, the site itself needs some attention as the links are all but invisible in my browser.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:45:00 -0800

Simple/brilliant...

By: Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:00:41 -0800

I'm pretty sure they can't steal my soul just by looking at them. I wouldn't be so sure....

By: bashos_frog

bashos_frog — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:14:46 -0800

I've seen better photoshop works... from his site: "...a photo-montage technique he termed 'photo-surgery,' in which photographs were altered through manual excision, collage and sometime defacing of the subject" So it is probably not photoshop at all. (But he loses major points with me for having his entire 5 paragraph bio up as a stupid textual gif image with no alt attribute.)

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:55:59 -0800

I don't know if I like them or not...but they provoke a response - some are disturbing, and some are amusing to me, in a child is the father of the man kind of way. I like age progression things - except I like them better when someone else's body is the laboratory, rather than my own ;-) The site is indeed poorly constructed. He should find a new designer that will better showcase his work. As fenriq pointed out, the links are nearly invisible, and I didn't catch the text-as-gif til you mentioned it, bashos_frog. By the way, welcome to MetaFilter, bashos_frog!

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:44:17 -0800

The artists formerly known as?

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 20:15:28 -0800

I think it's very cool. I especially liked this one...I found it to be quite touching. Agreed that the site is in dire need of redesign...that navigation is impossible to see, and I'd love to see bigger images behind the thumbnails.

By: misteraitch

misteraitch — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 03:09:41 -0800

I like this very much indeed: thanks madamjujujive!