Brothers Recreate Their Childhood Photos as a Surprise for Their Mother

The brothers, Matt and Evan Breslow decided to recreate three photos as a surprise for their mother in 2012, it was such a success and they did four more in 2015 - some 30 years after they were originally taken.

“The smile and the burst of laughter that came out of her, I've never heard her cackle as hilariously as she did in that moment,” Matt Breslow told Fox 12 News.

“Our whole idea here is childhood, and the nostalgia and school bus and grilled cheese and connecting all those things,” he explained. “So we thought it would be funny if the tables were all these childhood pictures.”

The project took a lot more work than it might look. Finding outfits similar to their childhood ones was a challenge, requiring them to scour thrift stores and the Internet for jean jackets and overalls. They even had to make some of the clothes themselves.

“Goodwill, eBay, some vintage stores - I think we found one pair of the acid wash jeans at a vintage store,” Matt said. “Some of it we had to make, we had to create.”

Prince's First Photo Shoot: See Rare Photographs of 19 Years Old Prince Before He Was Prince

In the autumn of 1977, Robert Whitman was approached by the managers of a then-unkown Minneapolis musician with a demo tape in the hope that he would take some promotional photographs of their new artist. From the moment Whitman heard Prince's "Soft And Wet" he was sold.

“The first time I heard Prince voice was in "Soft and Wet". I was in the car with Gary Levinson, his business manager. After the first minute I looked at my friend and said “ This is more than special”. It was just different and I did not know who he was.” – Robert Whitman

He began to shoot 19-year-old Prince all over the city, from the streets, car parks and Minneapolis's famous music wall to his manager's house. As the first professional photographer ever to shoot Prince, Whitman has now released the never-seen-before photos as one beautiful book: Prince Pre Fame.

The book compiles pretty much all of Whitman's archives from that particular photography session – it's 200 pages deep, features 71 works, 18 contact sheets, a whopping total of 648 images, the original 1977 press brochure and diary entries from Prince's then business manager Gary Levinson. Plus there's a tribute essay from Spike Lee.

1990s South Korea Street Style: 18 Forgotten Trends All ’90s Koreans Were Obsessed With

Everything was more simple back then. The country's reputation wasn't as popular as these days. Seoul was less sophisticated and there were still many poor areas. People were less materialistic and plastic surgery wasn't as common as these days.

"Korea in the 1970s and '80s had no fashion industry at all. It hardly had any industries to be honest. Up until the 1990s, I would say that we were barely living in a developed country." – Woo Youngmi, fashion designer.

The '90s in Korea was a crazy time. Fashion trends come and go but the style is forever! These 90s fashion trends in Korea are so bold and trendy, they look like K-Pop Idols' stage outfits.

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53 Color Snapshots of Beautiful Brides in the 1980s

Here is a gorgeous photo collection that captured portraits of beautiful brides from the 1980s.

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Women of the Civil War - 57 Glamorous Portrait Photos of American Young Ladies around 1863

Mathew Brady (1823-1896) was one of the most prolific photographers of the nineteenth century, creating a visual documentation of the Civil War period (1860-1865).

During the Civil War, Brady and his associates traveled throughout the eastern part of the country, capturing the effects of the War through photographs of people, towns, and battlefields. Additionally, Brady kept studios in Washington, DC and New York City, where many influential politicians and war heroes sat for portraits.

Mathew Brady photographed many subjects in the time of the Civil War, including various portraits of women.

The U.S. National Archives has digitized over 6,000 images from the series Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, and here are some young ladies from the collection that he shot around 1863.

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David Bowie in Mustard Yellow Suit, Photograph by Terry O'Neill in 1974

1974 was a year of change for David Bowie. He left London and retired his futuristic costumes and the alter ego that propelled him to fame, Ziggy Stardust. That year, while on tour for the promotion of Diamond Dogs, Bowie sat for the documentary photographer Terry O’Neill in Los Angeles. The assignment was for a magazine and Bowie styled himself.

“He walked into the studio with the most vibrant yellow-mustard suit and his hair was multi-coloured – a combination of yellow, orange and red,” O’Neill recalled. “I remember thinking how tired he looked knowing what we know now, he was living very fast in 1974, and you can see that in his eyes.”

Terry O'Neill came to prominence in the 1960s with the new generation of photographers – including David Bailey and Brian Duffy – who rejected the static formality of the posed photographs of the 1950s and went instead for spontaneity and unusual settings. O'Neill worked with Bowie a number of times creating some of the most striking images of him, in particular the photo shoots around the Diamond Dogs album and tour.

In the 1970s Real Men Wore Flared Trousers and Flowery T-Shirts. How Cool Do These Guys Look?

The bell bottom pants became popular in the late 1960s and continued to widen into the '70s as they gained in popularity. This was a time where polyester became a popular fabric to use in clothing. Also bold colors and prints became part of men's fashion for the first time.

Early 1970s fashion was a fun era. It culminated some of the best elements of the '60s and perfected and/or exaggerated them. Some of the best clothing produced in the 1970s perfectly blended the mods with the hippies.

Just when it seemed pants couldn't flare any more, the flare was almost gone. By the late 1970s the pant suit, leisure suit and track suit was what the average person was sporting. Every man had a few striped v-neck velour shirts.

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