Torching vehicles for victory. In 1942, Marjory Collins, one of the first female photojournalists was doing her bit for the war effort.
Frank Eugene, son of a German baker & a beer hall singer and his signature “unphotographic photography.”
They don’t get more obscure or rare than L. Lu Vonago of Krasnoyarsk, a small town in the Russian Republic of Khakassia. His entire known output consists of just 23 pictures. He shot 2 hotel fires and one monomictic Lake resort in the early 1900s.
The bird whisperer Louis Agassiz Fuertes, who killed the birds he loved & the rare fruits of his final bloody jaunt to Abyssinia.
Found. Early photographs of an extraordinary time in a remote place. Leaf through the scrapbook of soviet-era Berdsk, central Russia.
“Dancing Moses” McLain, William Bradley, H.B. Busby, a dogs tail, and the unsolved slaying of Tenderloin Eva de la Craye.
The world’s first abstract painter was a Swedish mystic guided by spirits. Hilda af Klint wanted her work kept secret until 20 years after her death.
Inadvertent genius. Pima, Tucson & Tombstone, Arizona all get the Historic American Buildings Survey treatment in the ’30s & ’60s.
1858. Johannes Toorop, a 9 year old Javanese boy is sent by his parents to a school in Holland. 7,000 miles away. Maybe that’s why his work was so extraordinarily eclectic.
See the street photography that helped put social realism into George Hendrik Breitner’s Amsterdam streets.
“The cold, not cruelty makes her weare Fur in Winter and Wild beast’s haire. For smoother skin at night embraceth her with more light.” The Chech artist Wenceslaus Hollar & his etchings of 17th C. seasonal fashion & accessory collections for London ladies.
