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OBSCURE EDITORIAL AESTHETICS : Apocolyptic & elegant – 1901 imagery from the German satirical magazine, Der Affenspiegel. Take a look in the “Monkey Mirror” from Munich.

Munich satirical magazine, Der Affenspiegel – “The Monkey Mirror“, launched in 1901,...

Art & Design Obscurity

OBSCURE EDITORIAL AESTHETICS : Kickass 1920s illustrations from the left wing, anti-nazi, anti corruption & anti-war German satirical magazine, Lachen Links.

The first issue of the German satirical magazine, Lachen Links (Laughter Left) was...

Art & Design Obscurity

What do an Uzbekistan anniversary, the Red Army, Moscow childcare & early silent movies have in common? They’re all given the Constructivist treatment in these Soviet posters. 1920-1935

Aleksandr Rodchenko. Vladimir Mayakovsky. Anonymous. Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg. Anonymous....

Big in Japan. The hordes of Western tourists flocking to Japan in the late 1800s were hungry for photo mementos. Enter the Baron – the Czech born Austrian, Raimund von Stillfried who moved to Yokohama at just the right time.

In the 1870s, Japan was experiencing a huge tourist boom, Western tourists...

James Sowerby (1757-1822), “A new elucidation of colours, original, prismatic, and material; showing their concordance in three primitives, yellow, red, and blue; and the means of producing, measuring, and mixing them. With some observations on the accuracy of Sir Isaac Newton”. London, 1809.

James Sowerby (1757 – 1822) was an English naturalist, illustrator and mineralogist. When...

THE PHOTOCHROM GUIDE TO : Salt Lake City, Green River Butte, Price canyon & the Salt Palace, Utah.

Invented 140 years ago in 1880s Zurich, Photochrom, a.k.a. Fotochrom, Photochrome or...

THE PHOTOCHROM GUIDE TO : American Indians. c. 1897-1899. Mexico, Arizona & New Mexico.

Invented 140 years ago in 1880s Zurich, Photochrom, a.k.a. Fotochrom, Photochrome or...

W. Langdon Kihn (1898-1957). An artist “whose interests in the Indian is not in so much that of beauty as that of truth”.

Peyton Boswell, the art critic and founder of The Art Digest (“America’s...

Art & Design Travel

Richard Liebreich’s mid-19th century, Atlas der Ophthalmoscopie. You won’t believe your eyes.

In the mid-1800s, the inner workings of the human eye were as...

The legend “E.T.” Compton (1849 –1921). The Quaker boy from N.E. London who taught art to a Princess, climbed over 300 humungous mountains all over the planet and painted sights few humans, even today, will ever see.

Renowned for his “brilliant mountaineering skill on ice and rock, his truly...

Nature Obscurity

György Sándor : Volume Number One : Rarely seen 1950s Budapest street photography shot by a Hungarian classical pianist. A scratchy symphony of composition and poise in turbulent times.

A unique and rare glimpse at Budapest as seen through the lens...

György Sándor : Volume Number One : Rarely seen 1950s Budapest street photography shot by a Hungarian classical pianist. A scratchy symphony of composition and poise in turbulent times.

A very rare glimpse at Budapest as seen through the lens of...

Art & Design Obscurity