Fashion of a woman, wearing a long gown, floating in water, Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, 1947. Toni Frissell (1907-88) was one of the greatest photographers…
Take a pencil and a piece of paper. Sit in front of a mirror and look at your face. Now draw your own portrait in…
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…
Photographer Cindy Sherman has undertaken a sustained and acclaimed critique/exploration of the nature and construction of identity, Western self-representation, the male gaze, and the presumed…
Janet ‘Rusty’ Skuse–once Britain’s most tattooed lady. Let’s try and imagine just how shocking it once must have been to have seen a young lady…
Artist Charles Gates Sheldon (1889-1960) is best known for his cover art for publications like Photoplay, the Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s Magazine. His work…
‘Lucifer and the Goat Mendes.’ The most notorious witch in Australian history was an artist named Rosaleen Norton (1917-79) who scandalized her ultra-conservative homeland with…
During the decade of the 1980s, I saw Lydia Lunch perform maybe fifteen+ times and I caught some pretty seminal performances of hers, including the…
The first female combat veteran Margaret Corbin helping to load a cannon being shot by her husband John Corbin during the Battle of Fort Washington…
“Girls with guitars? That won’t work,” quipped John Lennon as he watched four girls take the stage of the Cavern Club, Liverpool in 1963. The…