Auschwitz Then and Now

Some of the prisoners liberated from Auschwitz in 1945 recreated the scenes of their lives there in art. An online exhibit places those artworks side-by-side with photographs of Auchwitz taken many years later.
In 1979, The Auschwitz Museum Archive reproduced selected pieces of art and sent them to writer/photographer Alan Jacobs.
After years of related work and many more trips, Jacobs, and his son Jesse, returned to the camps in 1996 to find and photograph the identical scenes depicted in the art. Krysia Jacobs then devised a way to present them as you see here. They are the result of work over a 24 year period.

An explanatory text, which may be disturbing, accompanies each image. Link -via Metafilter

(image credit: Mieczyslaw Koscielniak/Auschwitz Museum Archive)

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Neat idea, but after being spoiled with much more accurate photographic recreations, I think these could have been executed a little better. (No pun intended...)
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The vocalists need to learn the "positional dynamic control" microphone technique... Everybody need not lick their ice cream cones all at the same time... ;)
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These singers each think the performance is about them, and have forgotten that the point of singing is the song. As a result, it is hard to watch. Maybe their performance style is designed for radio....
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"These singers each think the performance is about them, and have forgotten that the point of singing is the song"

That's the whole idea behind the Simpsons, though. The point of the show is not the story, but the characters. The story has become secondary to the situations the characters get in.
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adamr, it's a group of a capella singers. That's like the bagpipes of the singing world. It's almost barbershop. Annoying is what they do.
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