Wilson Alwyn Bentley frustrated with being unable to view snowflakes under his microscope devised his own methods.

In 1991 JG Ballard returned to Shanghai to his childhood home and to Lunghua Interment camp.

Nearly 1,000 atomic bomb tests were detonated in the Nevada Test Site in the Nevada Desert from 1951 until 1992.

Anne Brigman (1869 - 1950) depicted herself and other female nudes outdoors in the Sierra Nevada.

Pictures of atomic bomb explosions taken one ten-millionth of a second after detonation from about seven miles away.

Architect Oscar Newman’s tongue in cheek 'Plan for an underground nuclear shelter' (1969)

Interview with JG Ballard Discussing English Society In The 1950's

Aerial photographs taken by pigeons using Dr Julius Neubronner's (1852 – 1932) Miniature Pigeon Camera' patented in 1908.

Wonderful interview with Quentin Crisp from World in Action (1970). Here he discusses being beaten up because of his appearance.

“Illness, madness and death were the black angels that watched over my cradle and have since followed me through life,”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) died of a heart-attack 7th July. Shortly before his death he looked back on his life and drew this cartoon

A compendium of demons and magic with the enticing warning "Do not touch me" inscribed on the title page.

The only known film footage of the French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) at work painting lilies in his garden at Giverny in (1914

Rare footage of Pierre-August Renoir painting at home (1915) aged 74.

An interview with Jean Renoir (1894 - 1979), conducted by Jacques Rivette in 1967.

Luis Buñuel interview where he describes the first film he ever saw.

A pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertiliser (circa 1892) unknown photographer.

At the age of 18 Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) sustained horrific injuries when she was involved in a bus collision in Mexico City.