Life of the People

Distress, 1938. James E. Allen, 1894-1964.
Exhibition Overview - "Among these artists were women, African Americans, and the Mexican muralists who were so infuential at the time. The collection is particularly rich in images from the 1930s, when the turmoil and uncertainty of the Depression led increasing numbers of artists to turn toward socially relevant subject matter."
Library of Congress

Moja Astrofotografia

M81
"My name is Dominik Wos and I live in a small town near Warsaw. I have been in astronomy and astrophotography for some long and short time I can say."
Moja Astrofotografia

The Endurance

"Ernest Shackleton, a British polar explorer, hired Frank Hurley to record, in still and moving pictures, an expedition to Antarctica, the last unexplored region on Earth."
The Endurance

Alexey Titarenko

The dresses, 1993
"His long-exposure photographs, often made of moving masses of people, are imbued with a down-trodden moodiness reminiscent of the stoies of Dostoyevsky."
len sculture

Mark Khaisman

"Welcome to khaismanstudio.com. Mark Khaisman was born in Kiev, Ukraine and studied art and architecture in Moscow, Russia. He currently lives and works in Philadelphia."
Mark Khaisman

WFMU's Beware of the Blog

Adolph Wolfli
Gallery of Graphic Musical Notation - "Here's 24 examples of unusual or graphic musical notation, from the cuneiform markings of the oldest song in the world, to the graphic notation of Stockhausen, Crumh, Cage and Eno, to the painted musical invention of Adolph Wolfli."
WFMU

Anne Sexton

Gwendolyn Stewart

Wikipedia - "In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the manic elements of Sexton's illness began to affect hir career. She still wrote and published work and gave readings of his poetry. She also collaborated with some musicians, forming the group Anne Sexton and Her Kind, who were working to put some of her writing to music. Sexton is the modem model of the confessional poet."
Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Modern American Poetry, Plagiarist, Bibliography

The History of Visual Communication

Art Deco, Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980)
Elif Ayiter - "This website attempts to walk you througt the long and diverse history of a particuler aspect of human endeavour. The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication."
The History Visual Communication

Jacob Carter Photography

1940 Landscape Series, 2007
"The fabric of cities stand as testament to the unrelenting development by man upon land. Layer upon layer of dense building and rebuilding: the constant urge to improve upon or change the surrounding environment has given rise to vivid cityscapes."
Jacob Carter

Accent on Images

Campi Phlegri, Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies, 1776
Libraries of The Claremont Colleges - "Pictures have forcefully expressed ideas for thousands of years. Coupled with text, pictures enhance the power of the written word."
Accent on Images

Peter Callesen

White Hand, 2007
"A common theme in many of my works is a reinterpretation of classical fairytales as well as a more general interest in memory in connection to childhood - for instance in my performances Castle, Folding and Jukebox."
Peter Callesen

The Social Ethics Collection

Plowing and Reaping by Prograssive Indian, #11
The Photography Collection - "The Social Ethics Collection has 7000 images on the subjects of health, labor, poverty, criminology, race, immigration, child development, sports, settlment houses, penology, association, ghettos, Ellis Island, slums, work, hospitals/medical treatment and agiculture."
The Social Ethics Collection

Andrew Moore

Calle Bayona
Art in America - "In this exhibition of recent photos of Havana by New York photographer Andrew Moore, it's clear that Cuba also harbors a treasure trove of architectural gems, albeit in a state of woeful decay."
Andrew Moore

The Heritage of the Great War

Ambulance
"This website is dedicated to the events and consequences of World War One. We put some emphasis on unorthodox and thought-provoking points of view."
The Heritage of the Great War

George Glazer Gallery

Long Island, 1897
"Antique Globes, Prints & Maps. Experience history, exploration, and human achievement. Welcome to the journey..."
George Glazer Gallery

Ken Heyman

Hemingway

Sundaram Tagore Gallery - "Born in New York City in 1930, Ken Heyman bacame interested in photography in high school. Though just a hobby for Heyman as he attended classes at Columbia College, two events would steer hir course towards a career in photography."
Ken Heyman

TAI Gallery / Textile Arts

Ceremonial Mantle, Sihuas Valley, Nasca region, Peru. 200 BC - 400? AD.
"The gallery has always specialized in art works that incorporate exquisitely beautiful image and color elements, along with an historical integrity of design-textiles originating from Ancieient Peru, Africa, and Asia, with a particular emphasis on those from India, Indonesia, and Japan."
TAI Gallery

Amy Trachtenberg

History I, 2007 60 x 60 inches
Brian Gross Fine Art - "In these painting, the artist states, 'it has become unavoidable to evoke the natuural realm in its contemporary anxiety and beauty'. Trachtenberg works though as intuitive, process-oriented approach."
Amy Trachtenberg

Lucinda Williams

Lost Highway - "It's long been said that the blues - in all its forms - is one of the most potent means to transform pain into beauty. Lucinda Williams has known that since she began devouring music as a youngster growing up in Louisiana, and she's been finding new ways to perform that alchemical reaction ever since."
Wikipedia, 1, YouTube, Lost Highway, Lucinda Williams, MySpace

History of the Low Countries - 17th century

Jan Frans Eliaerts
Web Gallers of Art - "In conferring the southern provinces on his daughter, the Infanta Isabella, and on his son-in-law, Albert, Philip II gave Flanders the illusion of independence, but the country was to be ravaged by was and involved in the Spanish downfall."
Low Countries 17th

David Prifti

"The wet plate process was invented in 1851, and became the most important photographic process of the 19th century. "
David Prifti

Y. Z. Kami

Photo by Robert McKeever
Gagosian Gallery - "Kami's silent, meditqtive painting project a quiet monumentaliy that invokes various mystical traditions culled from both the East and the West, as well as the austere Persian mausoleums and somber ruins of the ancient world."
Y.Z. Kami

Michael Palmer

photo: Pieter Vandermeer

Wikiperia - "Michael Palmer (b. May 11, 1943 in Manhattan, New York) is a contemporary American poet and translator. He has worked extensively with contemporary Dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists."
Wikipedia, Academy of American Poets, Modern American Poetry, PENNSOUND.

Ernest C. Withers, 1922-2007

Panopticon Gallery - "Ernest Withers was born 85 years ago in Memphis, Tennessee. ... Fortunately for photographic history, Withers lived and photograed in Memphis - crossroad for the Civil Rights Movement, Blues, and hometown to Negro Baseball League team, Memphis White Sox."
Ernest C. Withers

Qiu Zhen

"Photographers came to Beijing from all over China. Some were long-time professionals and others were recent graduates of Chinese art and film schools."
Qiu Zhen

Spanish Painting - 15th-17th centuries

Caravaggio, The Musicians. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Wed Gallery of Art - "The 17th century is the great period of Spanish painting. During this 'golden age' Seville and Madrid were particularly active centres where there emerged a truly national style, popular, religious and of an admirable quality, stimulated by Italian influence."
Spanish Painting

Eugene Atget, 1857-1927

The Marne at La Varenne

The Getty - "Eugene Atget never called himself a photographer; instead he preferred 'author-producer.' A private, almost reclusive man, Atget first tried his hand at painting and acting, then begen to photograph vieux Paris (Old Paris) in 1888."
Getty

John McDermott

Girl in a Boat - Hoi An, Vietnam - 2000
"These ancient ruins provide a physical connection to the past, but it is the people who live around them that carry their culture into the future."
Images of Asia

Brian Rose

Vacha, East/West German Border, 1985
The Lost Border - "In 1985 I began a photo-documentation of the Iron Curtain, travelling across Europe along the former dividing line between East and West."
Brian Rose

Red Earth

"RED EARTH is an international environmental arts group creating site-specific and parformances in response to the landscape..."
RED EARTH

Brigitte Carnochan

Frankfurt Roses, 2000

"Despite the debates over 'honesty' and 'truth' in photography, it is an intrinsically subjective art and form of commucnication. The photographer has chosen, from a huge range of images, certain ones - or pieces - from a certain perspective, with the light at a certain angle and at a unique moment in time."
Brigitte Carnochan

Kevin Pointer

what the flood left behind

Serpent Factory

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wikipedia - "His efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech. Here he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in US history."
Wikipedia, Stanford, Newspaper, MLK Online, Nobel Prize, Google.

Historic Cities

Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Obbis Terrarum, 1598

"This site contains maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities and facilitates the location of similar content on the web."
Historic Cities

Brian Taylor

Roots, Monte Sereno

"Brian is known for his innovative explorations of alternative photographic processes including historic 19th Century printing techniques, mixed media, and hand made books."
Brian Taylor