Photo of people in modern casual clothes on a river bank recreating the poses from Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

An incredible photo recreation of Georges Seurat’s painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jette. The photo was staged back in 2006, but I hadn’t seen it until it popped up on Reddit a few days ago. I find it amusing that people have been posting lyric fragments from Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George in notes on the photo!

There’s also a side-by-side comparison of the painting and the recreation.

Update: the photo is by Mark’s Postcards from Beloit, who has posted an album of more shots from the photoshoot featuring Friends of Riverfront in Beloit, Wisconsin. Used here under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (attribution, no commercial use or derivatives) licence.

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