Research
Beyond Yesterday is an exhibition grounded in field and archival research. These pages set out its method and its sources: how the rephotographs are made, how the archives are read, how images and arguments can be cited, and where the open questions remain. The page on rephotography is available in all the languages of this site; the other research pages are published in English and Romanian. The same few examples return from page to page (Pades, Laista, the Plovdiv–Sliven panorama): they are the best-documented cases, and each shows a different side of the method.
- RephotographyGoing back to the places in the photographs: the method, shown visually.
- Field MethodHow the second photograph is made and how its limits are recorded.
- GazetteerPlace names in the different written traditions, with stable identifiers.
- Film ChronologyThe surviving films, with the status of their dating.
- The AromaniansThe world the brothers were born into: language, villages, seasonal movement.
- Archival SourcesRepositories, collections and provenance.
- BibliographyThe literature on the Manakia brothers and their world, 1890 to today.
- Research PapersDossiers of documented findings and open questions.
- How to CiteA suggested way of referring to the archival photograph, the rephotograph and the comparison.
- Methods and DebatesEvidence standards, contested dates, and the ethics of digital images.