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.
