thanks for sharing this idea! I think it is a good and nice idea - actually something we already tried in the Netherlands as a local event in the historical city Delft. We collaborated there with the local GLAM center and a local newspaper - but unfortunately we dind't have any submissions for this subcontest. It seems the threshold was too high and the concept was a bit too complicated for people to grasp.

But with the proper preperation it could be really nice! What about running a pilot about it in Sweden? I would then suggest to make it an extra prize category, and that people are also still able to submit normal pictures. If it works well, you can share the lessons later on with other countries and we could see if it would work there too.

Lodewijk

El 27 de abril de 2012 13:56, Lars Aronsson <lars@aronsson.se> escribió:

Here is an idea for the future, perhaps for WLM 2013.

I just finished scanning a set of 5 books, being a description of
Denmark's towns, counties and villages, by Jens Peter Trap,
printed 1898-1906. It is full of woodcut illustrations of what
Denmark looked like a century ago.

I'm sure we could find similar books from many countries. A photo
competition could be organized around taking new photos of the same
objects, from the same angle, trying to reproduce the old book.
Prizes could be given not only for fine photos, but also for similarity
with the old illustrations. This is of course most relevant for the
less known buildings and places, because we already have the main
cathedrals covered.

Here's a picture of Gaardbogaard manor in northern Jutland,
http://runeberg.org/trap/3-4/0067.html

Wikipedia has an article and a photo, but from another angle,
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A5rdbog%C3%A5rd

Here's the south portal of Fovlum church,
http://runeberg.org/trap/3-4/0558.html

The Wikipedia article has two photos, but none that shows
this architectual detail,
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fovlum_Kirke
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fovlum_Kirke

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Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se)
Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/

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