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When Weegee met Alfred Stieglitz
Photographer Weegee describes his haunting meeting with an 81 year old Alfred Stieglitz. From his book Naked City.
Ben Samuel
Sep 21, 20224 min read
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Friedrich Nietzsche's Mental Breakdown
Jan 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) is said to have witnessed a cab driver viciously whipping a horse.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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"Advertisements" by J.G Ballard
"I created a series of advertisements which I placed in various publications..Of course I was advertising my own conceptual ideas,
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Eadweard Muybridge photography
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) photography. Most famous for his studies in locomotion and it's influence on the invention of cinema
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz
Portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz photographed O'Keeffe obsessively
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Etienne-Jules Marey inventor of chronophotography
Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) physiologist, doctor, biomechanics engineer and inventor of chronophotography.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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The Snowflake Man - First pictures of snow crystals
Wilson Alwyn Bentley frustrated with being unable to view snowflakes under his microscope devised his own methods.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Atomic bomb tests in the Nevada Desert (1951 - 1992)
Nearly 1,000 atomic bomb tests were detonated in the Nevada Test Site in the Nevada Desert from 1951 until 1992.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Nudes by Anne Brigman
Anne Brigman (1869 - 1950) depicted herself and other female nudes outdoors in the Sierra Nevada.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Atomic bomb explosions (1946–52) taken with Rapatronic Camera
Pictures of atomic bomb explosions taken one ten-millionth of a second after detonation from about seven miles away.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Eadweard Muybridge 'The Horse in Motion'
In June 1878, Eadweard Muybridge created a sequential series of photographs with a battery of 12 cameras along the race track
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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Aerial photographs taken by pigeons
Aerial photographs taken by pigeons using Dr Julius Neubronner's (1852 – 1932) Miniature Pigeon Camera' patented in 1908.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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A pile of American Bison Skulls (Circa 1892)
A pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertiliser (circa 1892) unknown photographer.
Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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