Hi Lars, great idea indeed.
In the Italian Wikisource, we decided to "participate" in Wiki Loves Monuments
just working on geographic/travel books, with illustrations and engravings.
next step could be relating those with the list of monuments, as you suggest.
It would need a lot of work, but it's probably worth it.
Aubrey
2012/4/27 Kilian Kluge <kilian(a)k-kluge.de>de>:
Hi Lars,
that is a great idea! I don't know if it's suitable for a photo
competition aiming at the general public like WLM, but it's at least a
great project for a group of photographers!
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
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.
While adding images to monuments lists and looking through old
pictures of monuments, I noticed that this happens quite often "by
accident": There seem to be certain views people prefer above all
others when it comes to depicting a certain monument (even unknown and
small ones).
Just one really great example: The first two pictures in the gallery
at the bottom of
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alte_Lahnbr%C3%BCcke_(Limburg) were
created about 150 years apart and show the same scenery from almost
the same angle. I think I will try to reproduce the view of the
painting more precisely this summer, thanks for the idea!
Best regards,
Kilian
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