To understand our present, we must first have a sense of our past. The historic Ellis Island in the United States is a symbol of the “melting pot” that
Poznali się na studiach artystycznych w Petersburgu. Julia Janiszewska chciała zostać rzeźbiarką, a Kazimierz Stabrowski – malarzem. Przy okazji zostali małżeństwem.
These late-19th and early-20th century photographs show some of the last Maori women to wear the traditional Tā moko face marking before it was outlawed by British colonialists. Ta moko…
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A band of pioneering Western photographers sought to capture China’s landscapes, cities and people, captivating audiences back home and sparking a homegrown photography movement in the process.
Through his meticulously rendered portraits, Santa Cruz-born artist Kajahl subverts the tradition of Blackamoor—a highly stylized European aesthetic that visualized people of color, particularly African men, in exoticized forms and subservient roles—by instead depicting Black subjects in valorized positions. Part of a series titled Royal Specter, the vivid paintings center alchemists, scholars, astronomers, and various intellectual figures within grandiose and luxurious settings. While the artist’s works evoke the racist sculpture and decorative pieces of Blackamoor, they remove the historical context and alter the original narrative through anachronistic details. More
The rise of photography in the mid-late 19th-century began the move away from an oral and literary tradition towards one based on image. A photograph can describe a moment in time more viscerally than the written word. Think of that picture of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. A million words have been written … Continue reading "The Astonishing Cinematic Autochrome Photography of Heinrich Kühn"
This was once the most glorious building of Romania but since 1990 it’s been abandoned and slowly but surely falling into disrepair. The building is listed as a historic monument by the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs of Romania. Usually I do not share location specific details about the places I visit.
1939 Leader (Melbourne, Vic.) Elevated view of Chinese dragon in Bendigo street, crowd lining street watching. Newspaper clipping pasted to verso. Visit our catalogue to download a hi-res copy or find out more about this image: handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/176874 Want to find more pictures from the State Library of Victoria's collections? guides.slv.vic.gov.au/pictures
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by prospectors to the Yukon Territory in north-western Canada. Gold was first discovered in Bonanza Creek by the local miners on August 16, 1896. When the news of the discovery reached Seattle and San Francisco roughly 100,000 men traveled up north in search…
Two Dutch girls in traditional costumes, Holland
6. Policemen inspects a lumber truck that reeks of alcohol during prohibition (1926).
You might not expect radio to be the medium popularizing an old photo, but so it is this month, with a photo of some extraordinary medical students in Pennsylvania in 1885, who were featured on Pub…
Look closer at these rare photos that show dark and mysterious revelations thought to be lost to history, they each show a piece of the past that was once believed to be buried. The photos and stories collected here will take everything you know about history and turn it upside down, changing much of what you thought you knew about the past.Each picture that we've included here deserves a long look.
The Ainu people, indigenous to Japan, struggle to maintain their culture in a world determined to see their extinction in favor of modernization.
Painter, illustrator, art critic and theoretician, a writer representing the nineteenth-century trend of realism, creator of the Zakopane style in architecture.
Celebrating cultures around the world and vivid moments of our past, the project National Geographic Found curates historical images and
sassy: adjective ˈsa-sē impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and stylish, showing no respect for people in authority, saucy, pert, confident, chic. Greece, 1960s, submitted to Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/996n6h/my_dad_with_my_uncle_greece_late_
In 1815, the first British missionaries arrived in Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud). Dubbed Nieuw Zeeland by adventurer Abel Tasman Nieuw Zeeland, after the Dutch province of Zeeland, the country would be changed in 1840 when the British and many Maori tribes signed the Treaty of Waitangi.
Ewa Juszkiewicz subverts the traditional notion of female portrait sitters as passive, simple subjects in her subtly unusual oil paintings. The artist constructs each painted portrait using familiar tropes from European art history, sometimes even citing specific paintings as inspiration. Female subjects with smooth, pale skin and luxurious apparel are placed in front of abstract or generically bucolic settings, sometimes with a “gender-appropriate” item in hand, like a paintbrush, small book, or feather. But in place of the beautiful face a viewer would expect in the center of these pleasant trappings, Juszkiewicz has turned the subject’s head 180 degrees to show an elaborate hairstyle, or filled the face with unruly plants or ribbons. More
A rare historical look at Indonesia and its people during the Dutch colonial period… A Javanese prince with two servants (c. 1865-1870) A man from Batavia carrying his warung (c. 1870) Raden Saleh, a Javanese romantic painter who pioneered modern Indonesian art (c. 1872) The Raja of Buleleng, Bali, and his secretary (c. 1875) Two […]
Japan Actress Sada Yacco as Katsugari in "The Geisha and the Knight". In the role of Oriye. Japanese Ophelia: Madness scene.
Since the early 1970s, Tina Barney (b. 1945) has been acutely observing individuals in ordinary domestic moments, capturing them with her signature large-format camera. As the subjects of her photographs stare outward, the viewer is drawn into their private worlds. This engagement marks an intimate and unparalleled study of the social and cultural lives of predominantly East …
A rare historical look at Indonesia and its people during the Dutch colonial period… A Javanese prince with two servants (c. 1865-1870) A man from Batavia carrying his warung (c. 1870) Raden Saleh, a Javanese romantic painter who pioneered modern Indonesian art (c. 1872) The Raja of Buleleng, Bali, and his secretary (c. 1875) Two […]
1907 The Paris of the Belle Époque saw the emergence of a certain type of street outcasts; a subculture that combined killer style with the criminal underworld. They were known as, les Apaches. They lived in secret dens in the city outskirts, shunned the idea of honest labor and took their name
Amatørfotograf dokumenterte på slutten av 1800-talet den samiske kulturen og folket i Kautokeino. I dag er biletsamlinga ein del av UNESCO si verdsarvliste.
Wystawa w Paryżu jest kolejną odsłoną "Zapisu socjologicznego", monumentalnego projektu fotograficznego autorstwa Zofii Rydet.
1. Mirza Musa: the only true brother of Baha’u’llah, surnamed “Kalim.” 2. Mirza Buzurg: youthful martyr, bearer of Baha’u’llah’s Tablet to Nasiri’d-Din Shah, surnamed “Badi.” [Wonderful] 3. Siyyid Hasan: one of the martyred brothers of Isfahan, surnamed “Sultanu’sh-Shuhada.” [King of the Martyrs] 4. Mulla Abu’l-Hasan: faithful steward of Baha’u’llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha, surnamed “Amin.” 5. Mirza Abu’l-Fadl-i-Gulpaygani: Foremost and authoritative expounder of the Baha’i Revelation. 6. Mirza ‘Ali Muhammad: poet, teacher, and martyr of te Faith, surnamed “Varqa.” 7. Mirza Mahmud: an indomitable spirit and jealous defender of the Faith. 8. Mulla ‘Ali Akbar: a flame of zeal and devotion. 9. Mulla Muhammad: learned and steadfast exponent of the Baha’i Revelation, surnamed “Nabil-Akbar.” 10. Haji Mirza Muhammad Taqi: cousin of the Bab and chief builder of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkar of Ishqabad, surnamed “Kabir-i-Afnan.” 11. Haji Mirza Muhammad Taqi: prominent teacher. 12. Mulla Muhammad: poet, historian, and teacher of the Faith, surnamed “Nabil-i-A’zam.” 13. Shaykh Kazim: a flame of the love of God, favored of Baha’u’llah, surnamed “Samandar.” 14. Muhammad Mustafa: brave and vigilant custodian and bearer of the remains of the Bab. 15. Mirza Husayn: distinguished calligraphist, and companion-in-exile of Baha’u’llah, surnamed “Mishkin-Qalam.” 16. Mirza Hasan: devoted teacher of the Cause, surnamed “Adib.” 17. Shaykh Muhammah ‘Ali: eloquent and learned champion of the Faith in Russian Turkistan 18. Zaynu’l-‘Abidin: noted scribe, chief figure among “the exiles of Mosul,” surnamed “Zaynu’l-Muqarrabin) 19. Mirza ‘Ali Muhammah: zealous advocate in the early days of the proclamation of the covenant of Baha’u’llah, surnamed “Shahid-ibn-i-Shahid.” (The Baha’i World, 1928-1930)
Rare 19th century photographs of Shanghai by English photographer William Saunders go on show in London in first public exhibition devoted to his work.
Women of Pampanga province’s patriarchal society have held their own and made their own marks.
Marti Friedlander - Te Uira Aratima, Tuhoe 1970
A collection of rare photographs from China's Cultural Revolution is on display in London for the first time since they were hidden for safekeeping nearly 45 years ago.
Ans Westra - Mokai, near Wairakei, 1984
Life became very hard for the Aboriginal people of Australia when the Europeans invaded. One of the best known of the Tasmanian Aboriginal women from the
Kompozytor, dyrygent oper, orkiestr symfonicznych i chórów oraz pedagog. Urodzony 5 maja 1819 w majątku Ubiel k. Mińska, zmarł 4 czerwca 1872 w Warszawie.
I love the wild and free look of the young girl. Grandpa has a sword. The integration of the cultures was inevitable, and the approximate form of the Japanese Kimono has already been adopted. The main Photo and Comments about these fine folks are HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2746187012/ My entire AINU Set (still only a few photos) is HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/sets/72157607060944155/ Both the Okinawans and the Ainu have plenty of bones to pick with the current occupying over-lords who control things from their bureaucratic bunkers in Tokyo. It's not unlike the Native "Indians" of the Americas who have a pile of bones to pick with the Europeans who over-ran them. Although everybody seems to agree that there's no going back, that's no excuse for the way people have been treated by the usurpers and over-runners during the endless centuries of human expansion. When it comes to recognizing the existence of the Ainu, the modern Japanese have, until very recently, been complete and total idiots over the matter. From a ca.1920 collotype photograph published in Japan. Photographer unknown. RANDOM SOBA : www.flickriver.com/photos/24443965@N08/random/
One of the 20th century's most famous photojournalists, Robert Capa is renowned for his stark images of human conflict – but a New York exhibition of unseen colour shots could change all that
