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German anthropologist Egon von Eickstedt took thousands of portraits in Kerala during the 1920s. His photographs of Adivasi and Dalit communities document lives and traditions, but also reflect the colonial and racial science of their time.

In early 1900s New Orleans, E. J. Bellocq photographed Storyville’s madams and prostitutes – not as clichés, but as women in control of their world. His images reveal wealth, intimacy, and the strange beauty of a district built on vice.

In Victorian times, a rose wasn’t just a rose — it was a message. 🌹 Discover the secret meanings behind every bloom in the gorgeous Alphabet of Floral Emblems, where flowers spoke louder than words.

Peggy Guggenheim turned a tragic start and a vast inheritance into one of the most influential art collections of the 20th century. From Paris to Venice, discover how she changed the face of modern art.

The Ouled Naïl women of Algeria weren’t just dancers in coins—they were self-sufficient, independent women who defied colonial expectations. Discover how their traditions thrived, evolved, and were later misunderstood under French rule.

In the late 1800s, a group of American and Swedish Christians settled in Jerusalem to await the Second Coming—but ended up documenting Middle Eastern life through thousands of stunning photographs. From Bedouin traditions in the Sinai to Jerusalem’s quiet corners, the American Colony Photo Department captured a world on the brink of change. Discover how their spiritual mission became one of the most remarkable visual records of the region’s past.

Before climate warnings and collapse documentaries, one 19th-century artist painted the entire rise and fall of civilisation on five haunting canvases. Step inside Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire, a visual prophecy where glory turns to ash and nature always has the last word.

Jacob Riis, “Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement–‘Five Cents a Spot'” In 1890, a book titled How the Other Half Lives  introduced...

Portrait of W. A. Mozart by Barbara Krafft Once heard, it lingers. The soaring high C, often a rite of passage for boy trebles, has...

Marlon Brando has his hair and makeup done as he transforms into Don Corleone in the 1972 film "The Godfather." Steve Schapiro/Getty...

Left, a self portrait of Vivian Maier. Right one example of her fantastic street scene In 2007, a young estate agent named John Maloof ...

In the early months of 1972, Britain shimmered under the glitter-dusted spell of Marc Bolan. With corkscrew curls, flamboyant fashion,...

Most people know Victor Hugo as the towering literary figure behind Les Misérables  and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame , a man whose pen...

On a misty morning off the coast of Nagasaki, a concrete island rises suddenly from the sea like a warship adrift in time. Locals call it...

‘He was young and handsome…his mother’s hope.’ He was young and handsome, his mother’s pride and joy, but he died in torment, blind, sick...

ROCKY (1978) by Edward Lutczyn If you’ve ever stood in a cinema queue staring at the same old posters — moody close-ups, explosions...

Let us drift back, if you will, to the languid, sun-bleached summers of 1936 and 1937, a moment suspended on the cusp of catastrophe, to...

When we flick through war photography now, we half expect raw, sometimes shocking snapshots of the front lines, muddy trenches,...

Strolling through any European art gallery that houses works from the Middle Ages to the early Renaissance, one cannot help but notice...

In the mid-19th century, at a time when the United States was rapidly expanding its borders and solidifying its national identity, a...

On 6 October 1966, a date acid enthusiasts half-jokingly refer to as 'The Day of the Beast,' California became the first US state to...

In the quiet hours following death, long before photography could capture a likeness, artisans turned to wax and plaster to preserve the...

It was a grey June morning in 1870 when a solitary hearse slipped unnoticed through the streets of London. Few would have suspected that...

These days, we don’t give colour photography a second thought. It’s everywhere. From the high-res selfies on your phone to vintage film...