24 Celebrities Who Look Strikingly Similar to Famous Figures From the Past

They say that everyone has a twin somewhere in the world. Most of us will never come across that doppelgänger given the vast expanse of the world, but if you’re a celebrity, your face is plastered everywhere and there are thousands of people who think they look like you. But what about people from the past? Here are 24 celebrities’ twins from the past that might make you believe in time travel.

1. Macaulay Culkin and the young Vladimir Putin

2. Peter Dinklage and Diego Velazquez’s “Portrait of Sebastián de Morra”

3. Jennifer Lawerence and her Egyptian twin-actress Zubaida Tharwat

4. Orlando Bloom and Nicolae Grigorescu

5. Alec Baldwin and President Millard Fillmore

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Extraordinary Color Photographs Capture Street Scenes of Carnaby Street and King’s Road, London in 1966

Jean-Philippe Charbonnier (1921–2004) was born in Paris in an artistic family. In 1939, his father gave him his first camera, and his neighbor, the cinema photographer Sam Lévin became his teacher and mentor.

In the Second World War, he trained in a photo studio of Blanc et Demilly, before going to Switzerland in 1943. In Switzerland, he met Jean Manevy with whom he studied typography and lay-out design. In 1944, he returned to France and became a typesetter for the newspaper Libération, while working at the same time as a freelance photographer. In 1950, he joined the monthly magazine Réalités until 1974.

Charbonnier was a photographic globetrotter who traveled around the world to photograph major events and famous people. In 1975, he left the magazine to become a freelancer again. In 1996, he received the Grand Prix de la photographie de la Ville de Paris. He died in Grasse in 2004.

Below are some of extraordinary Swinging London photographs which were taken by Jean-Philippe Charbonnier on Carnaby Street and King’s Road in 1966.

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Gorgeous Photos of Curvy Ladies From Edwardian Era

These gorgeous photos of Edwardian ladies show that they were so attractive.

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42 Fascinating Color Photos That Capture Street Children Portraits of New York in the 1980s

These fascinating color photographs were taken by American photographer Steven Siegel that show street portraits of children in New York from the 1980s.

“I've been photographing the streets and subways of New York for the past 30 years. When young people today look at my shots from the 1980s, they are aghast. To them, New York of the 1980s is almost unrecognizable. And they are right.”

“Photography for me is much more than the act of "taking pictures." I use photography as a way of literally opening my eyes to the surrounding world... and that particular perspective carries over to even when I'm not photographing...”

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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 Photographs of 19-Year-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’ 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 1990s 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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