College has changed a lot over the past 150 years… Harvard, Yale and Brown used to make all freshmen pose for nude photographs. There are thousands of these photos collected “for scientific research” from the 1940s to the 1970s, including nude photos of George Bush, Hilary Clinton, Meryl Streep, etc. (via)Cell phones were non-existent. Here,
Barack Obama has some of his most powerfully political work hanging in the White House. Now, Glenn Ligon’s bringing his personal museum to the UK. Here are its subversive highlights
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A blast from the past; these images that range from the late 1800’s to the early 20th century will make you wonder about the glory of Indonesia’s rich history. Immortalized by these rare and beautiful pictures; we give you an insight look into a distant memory in a not so distant world. Pharmacy in Java […]
These 40 photographs all tell stories about the historical figures or events that they represent. Once taken simply to document their present, they now help us witness the past. From historical landmarks and famous people to the basic daily routines of the past, these pictures portray the past in a way that we can empathize with and understand more intimately.
An early autochrome by Clifton R. Adams for National Geographic portrays three generations of a family outside their stone cottage in County Galway, Ireland
Portrait of a Woman (detail) | Adélaïde Labille-Guiard | 1787
© Foto de Gertrude Käsebier. Sem título, 1910. Este retrato sintetiza a delicadeza da obra de Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934), uma ...
Digital artist Marina Amaral specializes in photo colorization and recently updated the last images of a 14-year-old Polish prisoner in Auschwitz. Breathing life into the black-and-white pictures, Amaral managed to visually emphasize the tragic past of Czeslawa Kwoka.
Digital artist Marina Amaral specializes in photo colorization and recently updated the last images of a 14-year-old Polish prisoner in Auschwitz. Breathing life into the black-and-white pictures, Amaral managed to visually emphasize the tragic past of Czeslawa Kwoka.
Usually, when you read a history article or story, it's mostly just dry facts and your imagination. But a photo gives something a bit different... It shows you how something actually looked, letting you understand the historical moment more intimately. Whether it would be a historical landmark, a famous person or random photo of the past - they all have fascinating stories behind them, and we're just about to show you.
So meta.
These 40 photographs all tell stories about the historical figures or events that they represent. Once taken simply to document their present, they now help us witness the past. From historical landmarks and famous people to the basic daily routines of the past, these pictures portray the past in a way that we can empathize with and understand more intimately.
Here is another one for the end of the year! I was looking through my - very old - portfolio the other day and I came across the series of comic strips I used to produce for this monthly magazine in Cyprus, 11-12 years ago. The subject, being seasonal (families, in-laws, booze and Christmas trees) should be fairly uplifting... Happy New Year to all!
We imagine the past in black-and-white, but Mervyn O'Gorman was taking color photos using glass plates coated in potato starch in 1913. The technical name for this process is autochrome, and O'Gorman used it to take beautiful pictures of his daughter Christina wearing red in the British countryside. As the photos contain little to give their era away, they seem to be from no specific period.
Digital artist Marina Amaral specializes in photo colorization and recently updated the last images of a 14-year-old Polish prisoner in Auschwitz. Breathing life into the black-and-white pictures, Amaral managed to visually emphasize the tragic past of Czeslawa Kwoka.
Spring, 1915, James R Jackson. Australian (1882 - 1975)
