History
23-03-2024
20 first photos from the history of photography
On May 17, 1961, a color photograph made using the method of the Scottish physicist James Maxwell was publicly shown for the first ...
23-03-2024
The goddess of America, the fairy of the mountain, and ...
A specialist in the history of Japan and East Asia, Nick Kapur, opened a Twitter thread with drawings from an 1861 Japanese book ...
23-03-2024
Some of the craziest ways to show love from different ...
Have you ever committed follies for the sake of love? Maybe they were making some crazy gift or striking the imagination of the ...
23-03-2024
12 Interesting Historical Pictures That Might Teach You ...
Time keeps marching on, and we're powerless to stop it. However, people have been doing a good job of capturing fleeting moments ...
23-03-2024
How did the world's most famous photograph appear and how ...
It can be said without exaggeration that the photograph “Serenity” (Bliss) is the most famous photograph today. It was first ...
23-03-2024
What the Moscow Metro looked like in 1935
The first line of the Moscow Metro opened on May 15, 1935 and ran from Sokolniki station to Park Kultury station. Since then, 14 ...
23-03-2024
How iconic images of the past were edited in the developing room
Pablo Inirio is a master of photo printing from the New York headquarters of Magnum Photos. He personally worked on some of the ...
23-03-2024
10 discoveries for which we should say thank you to the ...
The Han Dynasty ruled China for more than 400 years. It is not surprising that in Chinese historiography, the Han period is ...
23-03-2024
Beijing 1947 in Color: At the Crossroads of Epochs
One of the greatest cities in the world was captured on color film by American photographer Dmitry Kessel in 1947. For a city with ...
23-03-2024
Rare photos of the imperial train in which Nicholas II lived ...
In 1915-1917, the Imperial Train became one of the permanent residences of the last Russian emperor. This train also included a ...
23-03-2024
The weapons of the polar samurai: what the formidable Chukchi ...
Today, most of us Chukchi evoke a strong association with the hero of the joke — simple and harmless. But 150-200 years ago, ...
23-03-2024
Colorful portraits of the Permians: unique photos of the ...
In 1868, the researcher K. Tchaikovsky visited the Perm Region, where he photographed local residents. Thanks to these images, we ...
22-03-2024
When the gods were colorful: an unexpected look at ancient ...
If you ask the question, what color are the antique statues of gods and heroes, even a schoolboy will answer that they are white. ...
22-03-2024
Robert Doisneau — the man who has sung Paris photos
Robert Doisneau (FR. Robert Doisneau 14 April 1912 — 1 April 1994) was a French photographer, master of French humanist ...
22-03-2024
Bright Italy the 50-60-ies of the photographs Paolo di Paolo
Photographer Paolo di Paolo did a lot of wonderful pictures dedicated to his native Italy. He was acquainted with many celebrities ...
22-03-2024
The Mexican Riviera of the 1950s, when Acapulco was not yet ...
In recent years, the Mexican resort of Acapulco has been overwhelmed by a wave of violence related to the activities of drug ...
22-03-2024
Princess Katya Desnitskaya of Thailand: The Russian girl for ...
They met at the dawn of the twentieth century, and by all conventional standards should not have been together. But their forbidden ...
22-03-2024
Donskoy album by Ivan Vasilyevich Boldyrev
May 12, 1570 is considered in Russia the day of the foundation of the Don Cossacks, which took shape that year in the form of an ...
22-03-2024
13 unique prisons of Russia, received the status of a ...
In our view, a prison is a dark building with bars on the Windows, surrounded by barbed wire. Most often it is, if we talk about ...
22-03-2024
What did tourists ' favorite places look like a century ago
Priceless historical monuments and famous cities of the world were once completely ordinary, indistinguishable from other ...
22-03-2024
10 cases when inventions killed their inventors
Today, as a hundred years ago, people do not stop inventing something new. But in the past, there were no computers and phones, and ...
22-03-2024
The story of Dan Eldon - a photographer who died on the job
Photography is a dangerous profession, especially if your specialization is reportage photography. These people have to work in the ...
21-03-2024
Dr. Nicholas Senn is a surgeon who inflated his patients with ...
Medical ethics forbids inflating patients, unless we are talking about the direct meaning of this word. American surgeon Nicholas ...
21-03-2024
The London "gin Epidemic", or As drunkenness nearly destroyed ...
England was repeatedly devastated by the epidemic, therefore, plague, cholera and smallpox until the late 19th century was ...
21-03-2024
The life and death of Anna Geldi, the last witch from Switzerland
Witch hunts claimed the lives of thousands of women-young and old-between the 14th and 18th centuries. Mass hysteria over ...
21-03-2024
25 frames of Henri Cartier-Bresson about Soviet life in 1954
On January 17, 1955, Life magazine published Henri Cartier-Bresson's photo essay "The People of Russia". The famous Frenchman ...