The Lumière Brothers And The Birth Of Film
The Lumière brothers were born in Besançon, France to Claude-Antoine Lumière and Jeanne Joséphine Costille Lumière. They moved to Lyon in...
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Rural Life In England, Photographed By William Morris Grundy In 1855
These photographs, taken by William Morris Grundy, capture the rural life in England during the Victorian era. Born in Birmingham in...
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London’s East End. Life Through The Lens Of American Author, Jack London, 1902
In 1902 the American author Jack London visited his namesake city – at the time when it was still the largest in the world. In a book...
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England, Through The Eyes Of Tony Ray-Jones
When talking about British photographers one name is brought up enough, Tony Ray-Jones. He only lived to see his 31st birthday but in...
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The 2000 Year Old Portland Vase That Was Smashed By A Drunk
Unique, priceless and irreplaceable, the Portland Vase, thought to date back to the first century BC, was shattered into more than 80...
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Sarah Goodridge And One Of The Earliest Examples Of 'Sending Nudes'
It is a painting so seductive, so intriguing, we cannot help but want to know the story behind it. Adding to the seductiveness is the...
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Christmas Cards Created By Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí’s artistic talent and craftsmanship knew no bounds. Whether he tried his hand at painting, drawing, photography, sculpture,...
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It's The Year 1830 And 'Dead At 17: The Fatal Consequences Of Masturbation Is Published' In France
He was young and handsome, his mother’s pride and joy—but he died in torment, blind, sick and paralysed—at the age of seventeen. If only...
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Polish Posters Of Classic Films Are Next-Level Beautiful
You may well have noticed that these days a lot of film posters look the same and every genre seems to have its own visual stylistic...
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The Course of Empire By Thomas Cole
Starting in 1833 Thomas Cole spent 3 years creating The Course of Empire, a series of five paintings describing the arc of human culture...
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Bass Drum Art From The 1920s And 1930s
The folks over at Polarity Records have put together a really in-depth and extensive article about the technicality of drum kits back in...
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Bilbo and Gollum behind the Iron Curtain
First published in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, has been translated into...
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Theo Van Gogh And The Film He Was Assassinated For Making
Yes, he was from 'that' Van Gogh family, Vincent was his great-granduncle and his great-grandad was Vincent's brother. On November 2,...
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A Supercut of Buster Keaton’s Less Benign Stunts
Joseph Frank Keaton was born into showbiz. His father was a comedian. His mother, a soubrette. He emerged into the world during a one...
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Charles M Schulz And Peanuts
The short video below melds the educational ease of a YouTube how-to with the self-directed, perhaps more artistically pure aspects of...
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The Gorgeous Letters Jim Henson Wrote to his Children and Friends Before he Died
Jim Henson was one of the world’s best-loved entertainers, and his sudden and untimely end at the age of just 53 sent a shock wave...
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Grace Kelly's Costumes In Rear Window
In the universe of Alfred Hitchcock heroines, it would be difficult to top Grace Kelly. In fact, the actress is literally ranked number...
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The Psychedelic Wonders Of Persian Architecture From 5 Cities In Iran
Medieval Iran has witnessed the emergence of some of the most beautiful wonders of Islamic art and architecture. These wonders mostly...
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Herb Ritts And The Star That Shone So Brightly
Herb Ritts (1952-2002) began his career in the late 1970s, when photographers helped ignite the modern celebrity cult. The stars shone so...
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Ormond Gigli And The 'Girls In The Windows'
There is a well-used adage that says there are reasons for everything. This is certainly true for why Ormond Gigli’s photograph, “The...
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Etiquette From The 1910s That Early Movie-Goers Had To Follow
During the silent film era, theatres imposed specific rules for movie watchers, displaying them on little cards. They gave several...
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Antonin Personnaz’s Autochrome Of 1907-1914 France
Art collector Antonin Personnaz took autochrome pictures of France’s Oise Valley between 1907 and 1914. He resembled the work of artists...
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19th Century Daguerreotype Portraits of The Blind
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” – Helen Keller...
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Illustrations From Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)
“The human race has been marching upward from the first ages of history. Under what law has that mighty procession of the ages taken...
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