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Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
16 days ago
Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and...
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)
16 days ago
A modernist manifesto inspired (controversially) by the Tupi people of Brazil.
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)
17 days ago
Commemorative featuring illustrations of pageants, costumes, and fireworks, later further illustrated by...
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4
17 days ago
Female astronomical first, in 2025 and 1787.
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)
30 days ago
A trick film in the peepshow vein, involving magnification and mites on...
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
about 1 month ago
As Chinese immigration to California accelerated across the 19th century, the hairstyle...
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
about 1 month ago
A crop circle sighting tinged with Christian morality.
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
about 2 months ago
Time travel and murder during a New York heat wave.
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
about 2 months ago
Excerpts from a dazzling image collection, discovered in a Norwegian barn in...
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
about 2 months ago
In 1853, John Benjamin Dancer achieved a feat of seemingly impossible scale...
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
about 2 months ago
The sole example of a Bauhaus workshop’s arcane theatrical scoring system, combining...
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
about 2 months ago
Eleventh instalment in our series of extremely small and free-form cryptic crossword...