The Metal Book raises problems. It is beautiful, and it is tainted. A seminal work, crucial in the development of...
Obscurity
These rare and interesting vintage photographs by Charles Wilkes Babb (1863-1956) the treasurer at Knox Mill in Camden, Maine, present...
Niles Spencer & his work is often associated with The Precisionists, a loosely knit group including Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth,...
Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935) is best known expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott’s legendary Terra Nova Expedition to the...
The Siberian Intervention (1918-22) was the dispatch of troops of the Entente powers to the Russian Maritime Provinces as part...
Nothing to see here. No scandal, no crazy artist-dies-in-rags-after-throwing-it-all-away. The short, bitter sweet story of Mikuláš Galanda (1895-1938) is one...
Choose your photo frame wisely. You may end up stuck in it for eternity. Random photographs circa 1880 – 1900...
ULK, Illustriertes Wochenblatt für Humor und Satire, (Illustrated weekly paper for humour and satire), was a German satirical magazine based...
Soon after moving to American the late 1850s, a German baker named Frederick Schmid very quickly changed his name to...
We don’t know who he or she was. We just have photographs, just a handful, in one of the collections...











