In Hardcore Crafts, Nancy Bruning Levine show us sex-inspired objects made from a large range of materials

In 1787, the Humane Society said that blowing tobacco smoke up their bum could resuscitate "persons apparently dead from drowning".

In the project Want Show Was Young, an old Taiwanese couple find joy in wearing clothes left behind in their laundry.

Ehon mizu ya sora is a work by Nichosai, a painter of the mid-Edo period. It is a boldly stylized depiction of kabuki actors on stage.

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present” – Joan Rivers     “It’s more blessed to give than receive,” said someone or other in the Bible. …

“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS     William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths…

Akihiko Okamura had not long left photographing the Vietnam War when he arrived in Northern Ireland in 1968 to explore John F. Kennedy’s ancestral roots. The following year he retuned to Ireland, settling first near Dublin, then Avoca, in County Wicklow. Okamura’s interest in war photography was sparked by a childhood in wartime Tokyo. … Continue reading "The Troubles In Kodachrome: An Outsider’s View of A Divided Northern Ireland"

During World War 2, French-Jewish artist Claude Cahun and her life partner and step-sister, the fashion designer and illustrator Marcel Moore, lived on the island of Jersey, a self-governing Crown…

The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small…

The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human…

For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says…

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in  shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of…

In 1976, the signer Morrissey wrote this letter about New York punk band The Ramones to Melody Maker magazine.

Modes et Manières d'Aujourd'hui paired the work of a single artist with a single author in the manner of an artist book.

Godfrey Frankel (1912-1995) was a member of the New York City Photo League. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Frankel graduated from Ohio State University in 1935 and worked for the Lorain Journal newspaper…

“The whole county is my studio. I used to go work under a certain bridge if it was pouring, because people used to hide there from the rain” – Mark Cohen     Mark Cohen shot from the hip, taking photographs with his camera hung low as his took a daily walk in New York … Continue reading "Tall Socks and Strangers: A Low-Level View of 1970s NYC"

Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton kept a cabinet of saved and found photographic curiosities. Her images were published in a scrapbook.

Aleksandr Zhitomirsky photomontages were airdropped on German troops during World War II and satirised American politics and finance.

Bristol Gardens runs between Formosa Street and Clifton Villas and in London’s Maida Vale. Artist and photographer Sheila Burnett has not longed moved to the area when she began to take pictures of…

% In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city's financial district and Brick…