When we visualise the Great Depression, we think first of one woman: Native American migrant worker Florence Owens Thompson. Few of us...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art contains many marvels of history and art. The Adeline Harris Sears Tumbling Block with Signatures quilt...

I make no attempt to hide it, but I do love a good heist (although the best heists are obviously ones we'll likely never hear of) but...

If you’ve collected pebbles, you’d certainly recall getting fascinated by their different shapes, sizes, and colours. However, your...

James Francis Hurley, known as Frank, was born in the Glebe district of Sydney, Australia in October 1885. His father Edward was a...

Even in his time, William Hogarth was much loved for his satirical, ‘conversation’ paintings. He was a man with strong social views and...

@burpzine is an Instagram series created by pastry chef Erik Vernieuwe in his spare time. The series is exactly what you think it is –...

In 2007 John Maloof paid $400 for a box in a blind auction in Chicago. An estate agent and flea market frequenter, Maloof was hoping to...

It’s a good bet your first box of crayons or watercolors was a simple affair of six or so colours… just like the palette belonging to...

Born in 1879 in Wilmington, Ohio, Carl (originally Karl) Everton Moon loved reading stories about Native Americans as a boy. He followed...

The Victorian artist Richard Dadd painted exquisite, highly detailed canvases filled with fairies and other magical creatures. In his...

Back in the 19th century, some books were bound in a particular type of leather. Human skin, sourced from unfortunate and unwilling souls...

c. 1904 Portrait of the Thomas A. and Margaret Dillon Family. Virginia-born coachman Thomas A. Dillon and his wife, Margaret, a domestic...

The young art director’s idea to photograph as many of the luminaries of the New York jazz scene as possible together for Esquire’s 1959...

“If it were easy to talk about, I’d be a writer. Since I’m inarticulate, I express myself with images.” – Helen Levitt Helen Levitt’s...

Creating portraits that are startlingly lifelike, Chinese artist Leng Jun is a master of hyperrealism. The accomplished painter is...

When his mother first enrolled him and his brother in dance classes when Gene was still a boy, he had to endure taunts from his...

Mona Lisa or La Gioconda, is arguably “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied...

In capturing images of doomed buildings, they documented the city they thought they were losing. In 1875, Alfred Marks learned he was...

After trudging through the liberated concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau, photographing piles of human bones, S.S. officers in...

Even in our age of unprecedentedly abundant images, delivered to us at all times by print, film, television, and especially the...

Forget the fabled rudeness of the Parisians. Forget the crowds of tourists who flock to the City of Light in the summer, making the...

When we were kids, it was easy to imagine that the ground was lava, or that we were superheroes or ship captains. But when we grow up,...

As we approach three full decades of a world without the Soviet Union, certain details about life in the societies that constituted it...