The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh oversaw a historic Changing the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace earlier today.
Striking images - shortly to be auctioned - show the Caribbean island in the early years of photography.
Here we look at 11 historic images from the Historic England Archive.
Striking images - shortly to be auctioned - show the Caribbean island in the early years of photography.
TULSA, Okla. — Oral Roberts, a onetime tent revival preacher who pioneered televangelism as the founder of a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name, died yesterday.…
A striking image from the British engraver and publisher Valentine Green, illustrating the idea that life, with all its frivolity and distractions (symbolised by the romance novel, parlour games, and high society lady in all her finery) is in fact - echoing the sentiment of Ecclesiastes (quoted on the obelisk) - nothing but 'vanity', all lives as they do inevitably ending in death. The subtitle - 'an essay on woman' - does, however, raise the question of whether Green is making a further comment on womanhood itself. See the second picture below for a different version, but this time using
The photographers were also around to document the celebrations at the end of the First World War. 'Peace Day' was celebrated in June 1919 and saw hundreds of thousands of revellers throng London's streets for parades and victory parties... though they'd clearly all finished revelling by the time this photo was taken.
Striking images - shortly to be auctioned - show the Caribbean island in the early years of photography.
A very candid, human look at Italy, Spain, Greece, and other countries in the 1950s, following World War II.
Photo: Andy Farrer
Make photos more interesting by using triangles in photography composition with these 5 ways to use triangles in photos
A Vietnamese woman looks as if she's swimming in a sea of green fire — one of many striking images from the Siena International Photo Awards.
The striking images were taken over two years by photographer Nick Hedges, who captured what life was like for many families
German photographer Markus Brunetti compiles thousands of detail shots of historic façades into a single, hyper-realistic portrait
Los amantes de los gatos pueden añadir un libro más a su estantería. Se trata de 'Cats Galore: A Compendium of Cultured Cats', de la artista Susan Herbert.
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Photographs from Karen Knorr’s “India Song” project are collected in an engrossing new book from Skira
Black Arabia "Black Arab" may be a confusing concept to many people in the West, where Arabs are classified as Caucasian people. However, all uses of the
Here we look at 11 historic images from the Historic England Archive.
French artist Antoine Geiger perfectly captures the all-absorbing and soul-sucking nature of contemporary cellphone culture. More striking images from his series “SUR-FAKE” below.
Photographs from Karen Knorr’s “India Song” project are collected in an engrossing new book from Skira
Archaeologists and Aboriginal elders are hoping the most comprehensive study of rock art done in the Kimberley region will confirm the images are among the oldest made by humans anywhere in the world.
Her crown, orb and sceptre were earlier removed from her coffin so she could descend into her grave in the royal crypt as a 'simple Christian soul'.
Joe O’Donnell, the man who took this photo at Nagasaki, was sent by the U.S. military to document the damage inflicted on the Japanese homeland caused by air raids of…
The striking images were taken over two years by photographer Nick Hedges, who captured what life was like for many families
These images stand in stark contrast with the Liverpool we know today
If we could wave a wand, we'd want to restore these gorgeous abandoned houses right now.
Artist: Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York). Date: 1918. Medium: Palladium print. Dimensions: 11.7 x 9 cm (4 5/8 x 3 9/16 ...
By the time she was caught and tortured by the Nazis, she'd saved 2,500 Jewish children. Yet Irena Sendler, who has died aged 98, insisted she was no heroin - and only wished she'd rescued more.
Ask the world to name three things which sum up Britain and they'll say pageantry, rain and the Queen. Yesterday produced the greatest combination of all three that those lucky enough to be there will ever see, writes ROBERT HARDMAN.
Portrait of Ethel Mannin, 1930 (Paul Tanqueray)
"Colored School at Fruit Cove, Florida". A beautiful old image of a one room school house back sometime between the mid-to-late 1870s to the 1880s. *************************************** "......On Tuesday, July 30, 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the institution of slavery, and the subsequent Jim Crows laws that for years discriminated against blacks as second-class citizens in American society......" NPR www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93059465&am... Okinawa_Soba has a lot original images of the descendants of slaves in America, as well as several showing actual slaves who were "freed" during the America's Civil War. To match these images, he also has a box of 19th Century and early 20th Century images of "Black Africa", showing the tribes, roots, and culture that is now a universe away from the modern day existence of "African Americans". Behind the faces of these few images I'm posting here, are lives and experiences that most White people in America will never understand -- either then, or now. [This caption is the same for all. If you have read this far, no need to do so for all the others with the same picture Title]
Down at The Quays, The Lowry houses the largest collection of paintings and drawings by one of our greatest artists. You'll see work as famiiar as the back of y
The striking images were taken over two years by photographer Nick Hedges, who captured what life was like for many families
Christopher Marlowe is more than a footnote in William Shakespeare’s life—here are 10 facts about a man we should know more about.
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To the outside world Vivian Maier was just a nanny and housekeeper in working in Chicago. But she also had a hidden talent that has not been recognised until after her death in 2009.
We are republishing this post from 2015 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Gordon Parks hadn’t been to his hometown, Fort Scott, Kansas, in more...
Her crown, orb and sceptre were earlier removed from her coffin so she could descend into her grave in the royal crypt as a 'simple Christian soul'.
‘The Voyage’ ‘Moondial’ ‘Vortex’ It’s been a while since I wrote and there’s so much to say……. It is so […]
Murtha's tender and frank perspective on children growing up in Elswick
‘James Joyce is a living argument in favour of my contention that it was a mistake to establish a separate university for the aborigines of this island — for the corner boys who spit into the Liffey.”
1. Incredibly Detailed Illustrations of our favourite small Parisian museums & archives By artist Christelle Tea wonderful account to follow. 2. These Amazing Quilts Artist Jeffrey Sincich makes quilts inspired by signage, shop fronts, ephemera. Found via Present & Correct. 3. Traditional 18th Century Welsh Women’s Fashion Found on Pinterest. 4. This gilded astronomical tool…
A Vietnamese woman looks as if she's swimming in a sea of green fire — one of many striking images from the Siena International Photo Awards.
