With the "Retro Metro" project, historical
imagery comes alive in the blending of late-19th and early-20th century photographs
with contemporary images into unique, singular works of art.
The project of researching, collecting, reshooting and digitally transforming
these images of Nashville, Tennessee was undertaken by photographer Mike Bedford.
Shown below are the "Retro Metro" images as initially created in Photoshop, Autumn, 1997.
(Near each finished blend are the original unretouched source images.)
Click here to see additional "Retro Metro" images created in Canvas 6, Summer 1999.
(One of these new Canvas images was featured in the September, 1999 issue of Publish magazine.)
