“Visions, delirium and nightmares!” The truly epic fails of Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935), iconic photographer of the Antarctic and the first and only pioneer of “distortography”.
A Late Middle Ages fashion show. The lost and found ten weepers from the tomb of Isabella of Bourbon c. 1475.
Tight corsets, outrageous bustles, picnics, hiking & tea. The Real Housewives of Camden, Maine : 1898-1900.
“Visions, delirium and nightmares!” The truly epic fails of Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935), iconic photographer of the Antarctic and the first and only pioneer of “distortography”.
Frank Eugene, son of a German baker & a beer hall singer and his signature “unphotographic photography.”
1944’s “Ancient Courses Mississippi River Meander Belt” by cartographer Harold Fisk makes the Mississippi River move.
Colour plates from “Gems and precious stones of North America” (1890) & “History of the gems found in North Carolina” (1907) by George Frederick Kunz, (1856-1932).
John Martin’s sister was murdered by a neighbour, one brother was a “perfectly cracked” eccentric philosopher/inventor & the other an insane religious firestarter. Perhaps it’s no surprise John became the ultimate harbinger of The Apocolypse.
The mystery of The Unidentified Artist Formerly Known As William Etty. Is he actually Quiller Orchardson? Examine their nudes carefully & decide for yourself.
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.
Cutting and rickling reeds, shooting snipe and fishing for Pike, catching eels and quanting the marsh. The Norfolk Broads in the mid-1800s as seen thru’ the gentle lens of naturalist, photographer & ex-physician, Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936).
1950s Tibet in hand-tinted technicolor & old school black and white. Courtesy of The Chinese People’s Liberation Army propaganda dept.
“Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan,” 1844, by the East London architect, artist & original tomb raider, Frederick Catherwood.
The elusive Alexander Rothaug (1870-1946), the Viennese painter who rendered myth a reality while his own life remains opaque.
Trains, trams, trucks, cars and rubberneckers. 1950-1960: the Dutch Golden Age of Road Wreckage. Crash scene photography from the archives of the Amsterdam Police.
