For the Dutch painter George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923), his interest in photography began as a practical way to capture street...
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Another wonderful series of plates by turn of the century French design guru, Emile-Allain Séguy. Made just before WW1, in...
In 1938, an obscure Russian neoclassicist painter named Alexandre Yevgenievich Yakovlev died in Paris aged just 51 after unsuccessful surgery...
These photographs were taken in 1970s Yemen by a Portuguese architect and urban planner named Professor Fernando José de Sá...
Although trained as a medical doctor specialising in Cholera, Dr. John Murray excelled as a photographer. He was introduced to...
Who was Kristian Berge? We know very little. For twelve years, between 1912 and 1924 the Norwegian engineer named Kristian...
These wonderfully spontaneous small bubbles of Helsinki life in the late 1880s were captured by the Finnish writer, interior designer...
In 1948, two Russians named Mikhail and Dmitri Prokudin-Gorsky approached the U.S. Library of Congress with 2,607 photographs for sale....
Moody monotone adventures in war torn 1950s Hungary with UVATERV’s anonymous state photography dept.
UNATERV was an organisation born of misery, chaos and utter carnage. In September of 1944, the retreating German army demolished...
These photographs were taken in 1970s Yemen by a Portuguese architect and urban planner named Professor Fernando José de Sá...
In 1906, a lighthouse desparately needed to be built on Kråkenes, a rocky, knife-like promontory jutting from the northwestern tip...