Some projects that show great similarities to PhotoTrails are: Science and Popular Science magazines, 1872-2007 and Selfiecity. Projects, like Phototrails, use thousands up to millions of images to create grand-scale images. Their goals are to show the progression of images from different time periods, cultural changes, and use techniques from media visualization to explore dynamics, structures, demographics, and visual patterns from photos generated by users.
Science and Popular Science Magazines
Science and Popular Science magazines, 1872-2007 goes through the changing layout, content, and strategies of images in two different magazines. This project was completed in 2010 by William Huber, Tara Zepel, and Dr. Lev Manovich. The goal is to show the evolution of images over the course of a long period of time. While similar to Phototrails in that they use several photos to create a mass image, it differs because it only shows the progression over a long period of time. The website goes through specific decades in order to show grow on the micro scale. From there, it goes to over a century. This project it great for show how images increase over quality over long periods of time.
Selfiecity
Selfiecity is a project that explores demographics from five cities to compile different selfies, poses, and expressions. By going through the different collections, viewers can analyze the interesting patterns that are revealed. As well as the previous project, Dr. Lev Manovich played a heavy role in the creation of this project. With the help of Moritz Stefaner, Mehrdad Yazdani, and Dr. Dominikus Baur, Selfiecity earned a name for itself and immediately took off. The website goes on to discuss methods and database, the history of selfies in photography, theoretical essays, and the functions of images in social media.
