Lust & Found

While Van Gogh was painting Paris, Pavel Mikhailovich Kosharov was transcribing the the dark heart of Siberia.

For almost a hundred years they were unknown to people. In Tomsk, Siberia, Galina Kolosova, the lady in charge of...

THE PHOTOCHROM GUIDE TO : Switzerland & the Alps, 1890-1905.

These Photochrome images of Switzerland are by Photocrome Zurich, made shortly after they invented the process in the 1880s. There...

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Art & Design Travel

THE PHOTOCHROM GUIDE TO : The Moorish architecture of Seville, Spain, c. 1890.

Invented 140 years ago in 1880s Zurich, Photochrom, a.k.a. Fotochrom, Photochrome or Aäc process, is an old school process for colourizing...

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Art & Design Travel

Felx Bonfils Middle Eastern Mix. From various albums.

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Art & Design History Travel

Variations on a theme : Ganzen spel, Goose board or “The game of the geese.” The 16th century game you’ve likely played and the City of Cheese that made it theirs.

The “Game of the Goose” or “Goose game” is a board game where two or more players move pieces around a track by rolling a die or two...

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Art & Design Travel

THE PHOTOCHROM GUIDE TO : The Dutch seaside resort of Scheveningen, c. 1890.

Invented 140 years ago in 1880s Zurich, Photochrom, a.k.a. Fotochrom, Photochrome or Aäc process, is an old school process for colourizing...

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Travel

THE PHOTOCHROM GUIDE TO : Spitsbergen, Norway, 1900.

Invented 140 years ago in 1880s Zurich, Photochrom, a.k.a. Fotochrom, Photochrome or Aäc process, is an old school process for colourizing...

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Travel

A Series of Eight Views Forming a Panorama of the Celebrated City of Constantinople and its Environs, Taken from the Town of Galata, by Henry Aston Barker. 1813.

For 18th-century Britons, Constantinople, now Istanbul, was perceived as a city of charm, exoticism and historical pedigree. In 1798, British...

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History Travel

THE PHOTOCHROM GUIDE TO : The seaside resort of Blankenberghe in Belgium. c. 1890.

Invented 140 years ago in 1880s Zurich, Photochrom, a.k.a. Fotochrom, Photochrome or Aäc process, is an old school process for colourizing...

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Travel

THE PHOTOCHROM GUIDE TO : The Moorish architecture of Granada, Spain, c. 1890.

Invented 140 years ago in 1880s Zurich, Photochrom, a.k.a. Fotochrom, Photochrome or Aäc process, is an old school process for colourizing...

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Travel

The photographer Thomas Andrew. It’s a good thing his New Zealand studio burnt to the ground. In the early 1880s he packed up & went to Samoa.

The photographer Thomas Andrew once had a thriving studio in on the corner of Karangahape Road and Pitt St. in...

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Obscurity Travel

More anomymous & inadvertent. Forgotten photography from nameless employees of Historic American Buildings Survey in 1930s San Francisco, California.

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Art & Design Travel

Helene Schjerfbeck began as a precociously skilled, slightly melancholic late-19th-century academic realist. She finished as a painter whose sublime abstract images are an exquisite harmony of pure paint and cryptic description.

“I have to draw to the point of madness, just draw. Just work, work and think of nothing else”, said the brilliant Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. It did him no good, he was just another “degenerate” artist to the Nazis.

From hat shop girl to Dutch art icon. But who was the Girl in the Kimono? The opaque story of an 1890s working class teenager immortalised by George Hendrik Breitner.

Descendant of samurai and relentless entrepreneur, Ogawa Kazumasa opened Tokyo’s first photo studio, shot Japan’s art treasures, the 100 prettiest geisha in Tokyo and taught photography to the military. His legacy is these exquisite images of flowers.

L’Estampe Moderne; the 1890s Parisian Art Nouveau “best of” album feat. various international artists. 4 lithographs every month. Just 3₣r 50c an issue.

It’s easy to see how, in the mid 1800s, Paul Gustave Doré “hypnotized the widest public ever captured by a major illustrator”. Even Van Gogh was a fan, he copied Doré shortly before shooting himself.

In the 1890s the Dutch painter, George Hendrik Breitner took nude reference photos for his paintings. In the 1990s they were found.

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach. 1880s free love messiah, naturist, pacifist, vegetarian, sun worshipper and unique symbolist painter.

Found photos : Three lost decades of Iowa Speedway recovered. With Merlin Benning, Lester “Red” Dralle. Claus Stricker, Don & Dick Feckers & Red Droste. 1950>1970.

The Art of Protest: Albert Hahn was righteous anger manifest. A graphic character assassin that even the mighty Germany Kaiser feared.

It’s 1914. and Orientalism meets Art Nouveau and the early stirrings of Art Deco in Emile-Allain Séguy’s “Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental”.

The 1920s French Art Deco influencer who drew pure design inspiration from the natural world. Insectes (1929) by Émile-Allain Séguy.

The forgotten Finska Vyer birch bark album, by I.K Inha, 1892. Inside are raw natural landscape photographs of Finland. It won the 1st international photographic competion in Paris.

William Morris. Strawberry Thief . “You can picture my Father going out in the early morning and watching the rascally thrushes at work on the fruit beds…”

The Swiss artist, Ernst Kreidolf (1863-1956). A Princess helped him give up the life of a farmer to put his faith and future in the hands of the flower fairies. He lived magically ever after.

Painter & early street photographer. The astonishing early street photography that helped George Hendrik Breitner add social realism to his famous paintings of Amsterdam.

India mid-1800s : Dr John Murray, cholera specialist an photographer. He spent 40 years travelling with gear weighing 400 pounds and a servant. His ever so slightly psychedelic negatives made it all worth it.

Samarkand, early 1900s. The first ever colour photographs of the ancient Persian city by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, an unknown Russian who invented his own colour photography process.

It’s 1914. and Orientalism meets Art Nouveau and the early stirrings of Art Deco in Emile-Allain Séguy’s “Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental”.

Around the world with the rare travel drawings by the American painter, Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). Found in the archives of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

Travel

While Van Gogh was painting Paris, Pavel Mikhailovich Kosharov was transcribing the the dark heart of Siberia.

THE PHOTOCHROM GUIDE TO : Switzerland & the Alps, 1890-1905.

THE PHOTOCHROM GUIDE TO : The Moorish architecture of Seville, Spain, c. 1890.

Felx Bonfils Middle Eastern Mix. From various albums.

Variations on a theme : Ganzen spel, Goose board or “The game of the geese.” The 16th century game you’ve likely played and the City of Cheese that made it theirs.

THE PHOTOCHROM GUIDE TO : The Dutch seaside resort of Scheveningen, c. 1890.

THE PHOTOCHROM GUIDE TO : Spitsbergen, Norway, 1900.

A Series of Eight Views Forming a Panorama of the Celebrated City of Constantinople and its Environs, Taken from the Town of Galata, by Henry Aston Barker. 1813.

THE PHOTOCHROM GUIDE TO : The seaside resort of Blankenberghe in Belgium. c. 1890.

THE PHOTOCHROM GUIDE TO : The Moorish architecture of Granada, Spain, c. 1890.

The photographer Thomas Andrew. It’s a good thing his New Zealand studio burnt to the ground. In the early 1880s he packed up & went to Samoa.

More anomymous & inadvertent. Forgotten photography from nameless employees of Historic American Buildings Survey in 1930s San Francisco, California.