Live or Memorex?

[Michael Comer]

Re: Live or Memorex?

#1 is period. It is a detail from a photo of a group of POW's.

I'm going to say #2 is period and #3 and #4 are modern. The main reason is because when my cursor is held over the thumbnail, the id for #3 is shissandgiggles and #4 is fat dork.

#1 and 2 have more serious id's as if they were being saved for a more scholarly reason.

Hey, it might be a screwed up logic but it works for me.

[Fod]

Re: Live or Memorex?

#1 period - just feels right
#2 modern - my thoughts were that if it were period, the bullseye canteen would date it to beyond the early war "first weeks in camp" set-up that the image is going for. Also the blackened coffee cup/can. I've yet to see one in a period photo.
#3 modern only because it look pixelated and glass/tin plates aren't.
#4 period only because it was posted here recently.

My 2 cents.

[SCSecesh]

Re: Live or Memorex?

1 - Period. Isn't this part of a larger image of ANV veterans, that has been used to show what appears to be a CD jacket in Virginia?

2 - Modern. Gut Feeling. A little to crisp and clear in the details to be 140 years old.

3 - Modern. Assuming the pixelation is due to an extreme enlargement of the image.

4 - Modern. Hat looks too much like ones we always deride!!

[SGulley]

Re: Live or Memorex?

#1-Period
#2-Modern
#3-Too blurry
#4-Definitely period. I agree with Rector on this one. Check the LOC.

I do like #2 even though I know it's modern.

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Re: Live or Memorex?

Well here are the answers:

1. Is period, from a group of AoT prisoners in Chicago

2. Is modern, it is an old pard Tim Mulvahill, the image was taken by William Dunaway

3. Is also modern, and this was also taken by Willam Dunaway (and it is pixilated due to it being enlarged, not because I was trying to hide anything.)

4. Is period.

Should I post another?

[RN_PAC]

Re: Live or Memorex?

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Should I post another?[/QUOTE]

Whew, I was wondering when we would get the answers!

I, personally, would enjoy another thread such as this; however, I am by my own admission easily amused :D .

Thanks for starting it.

Sincerely,
Tom

[Chuck A Luck]

Re: Live or Memorex?

...Should I post another?

Yes -- though I, too, am easily amused. Mainly, though, I was just fixin' to reply when I noticed the answers were posted (and, admittedly, my answers were only going to be 50% accurate).

[justthemiller]

Re: Live or Memorex?

I am guessing...

(1) Period, I remember that fellow from an Military Images issue titled "back from Dixie" showing Confederate POW's at Camp Douglas.

(2) Modern, the lighting seems off & the fellow is showing a lot of stuff which most of the original photos do not.

(3) Period, It is way out of focus for me but from the lighting it looks period

(4) Period, the lighting of the photo makes it look original.

Oh well, I should've looked at the answers on Page 2!!! :tounge_sm

[billwatson]

Do more

AS noted in another thread, I think it would be really cool for some of the fellows who are the right age and "look" to get together from time to time with period photography and try to create real "fooled you" setups. Just another way to have fun and hone our impressions.

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Re: Live or Memorex?

Take two. Live or Memorex?

[BorderRuffian]

Re: Live or Memorex?

Sir,
I'd say #1,#4,#5 period;#2,#3,#6 modern...............


Forrest Peterson
Landis Light Artillery

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Re: Live or Memorex?

Sir,
I'd say #1,#4,#5 period;#2,#3,#6 modern...............


Forrest Peterson
Landis Light Artillery

Dont forget WHY.

[billwatson]

Re: Live or Memorex?

Take two. Live or Memorex?

1 Period. I originally thought this was a backdrop in an outdoor shot, then realized that maybe it was a backdrop in a studio that used some props rather than just a painted backdrop to make an allusion to the outdoors, including canvas that might be meant to be seen as a tent. It's pretty rare to see any kind of backdrop in a period outdoor shot. The photo has all the imperfections of a period shot. If this is a modern shot, it's very, very well done.

2. Modern I don't recall seeing this much mix and match between wearing a hat and not wearing a hat in period photos. It tends to be all one way or the other.

3. Modern. Something about his collar disturbs me. Maybe it's that you don't often see clothing that is disarranged at all in period photos? Perhaps because the rarity of having an image struck made people keenly aware of how they were trimmed out?

4. Period. Those are period haircuts and it looks like the photos have been tinted. Unless someone has gotten very good, I haven't seen tinting done these days that looks like this.

5. Modern, it's some kid who's going to get a talking to about where his hands are if I catch up to him, and his jacket is not hanging right -- cloth is too bunched up. It's also much to casually posed to be a period photo -- people in period photos were posed to be aware of the camera. "candid" photos are a later development. The only way this is period is if it is someone caught at the edge of the main topic that was being photographed -- almost a bystander.

6 Modern, based mainly on the tone of the image itself rather than the guys.

[BorderRuffian]

Re: Live or Memorex?

Dont forget WHY.

Sorry,too quickly posted earlier.On #1 the background looks period,#4 has hand coloring on the belt buckles that I have seen on period images,#5 was a tough one but I thought the background looked like a period image.With #2 the fellows just look modern to me.With #3 and #6 they both have the same photographer's backdrop that was used in a photo in your last post.
Great images,thanks for posting!

Forrest Peterson
Landis Light Artillery

[Matthew.Rector]

Re: Live or Memorex?

This is kinda fun....

No. 1 Looks like a period image to me based on the props. Not to say they couldn’t or haven’t been used with today’s photographers but I believe it to be rare for one to take the time to set something like this up.
No. 2 Modern. I recognize the top left figure from the last set. Aside from that, I’d have to say there is something about these figures that makes me believe this is modern. Don’t get me wrong though-great “looks” by all in this pic! maybe in 150 years it will be harder to tell.
No. 3 Modern. I believe his shoes give him away on this. Too dusty or worn I think.
No. 4 Period. I believe the aged look of the image is one indication. Other than that, as Bill said there is nice tinting you don’t commonly see today.
No. 5 Period. Detail from one of my favorite images. Again, this is one from the LOC site. Bill, not sure you’ll have a chance to give this boy a talkin’!
No. 6 Quality image although I see the same recurring backdrop as seen in the other modern pics that have been posted. I believe this one to be modern.

Great set Robert!