Fantastic Beasts: Fabulous illustrations from classic Persian book of fables
Once upon a time, in the land of Persia, there lived a very wise old King called Anushirvan who had heard of an ancient book…
Author: Paul Gallagher Archives: 08/2017
The hilariously f*cked-up art of defacing kids’ coloring books (NSFW)
Looking for a scintillating opening paragraph to begin this piece on hilariously defaced kids’ coloring books, I thought it’d be fun to share a few…
Stanley Kubrick shoots ‘Chicago: City of Extremes’
Stanley Kubrick got his first camera off his old man Jacques when he was thirteen. It was a Graflex Pacemaker with a coated lens, body…
The Revolution usually starts here: Photographs of Teenagers in their Bedrooms 1960-80s
The artist Eduardo Paolozzi once described the artist’s studio as a laboratory where experiments are carried out and chemicals react with each other to produce…
In Dreams: Grete Stern’s powerful feminist surrealism
In 1948, the photographer Grete Stern was asked to contribute photographic illustrations for a weekly column on the interpretation of dreams in the Argentinian women’s…
Beautiful hand-colored photographs of Japanese women in the late 19th-century
‘Seated Woman.’ Kusakabe Kimbei (1841-1934) was a Japanese photographer who learned his trade as an assistant to Felice Beato, the pioneering photojournalist who came to…
Strange juxtapositions: The funny and unsettling photographs of Ambera Wellmann
It all started out as a bit of fun when artist Ambera Wellmann “plunked” an egg into a watermelon. The strangely irrational satisfaction Wellmann felt…
Naughty Nuns: Vintage nun porn from the classic tale ‘The Nun’ & more (NSFW or church)
Denis Diderot might sound like the name of some superstar French soccer player but it is in fact the name of a famous Enlightenment writer,…