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Thomas Annan 1829-1887 ‘The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow’.

Annan felt deeply uncomfortable about the huge inequalities in contemporary society. He took to the streets to captured a humane portrait of the squalor and deprivation of the cities poor.

#photography #ThomasAnnan

Hasegawa Takejirō (1853–1938) was a Japanese publisher specialising in books translated into European languages on Japanese subjects such as fairytales. Here are some of the beautiful illustrations printed on traditional Japanese papers.

#japan #fairytales #illustration

Spectacular river deltas taken by satellites..

The Bijagos Archipelago
The Mississippi Delta
The Lena Delta
The Volga Delta

#Satellitesimages #earth #earthsymphony #rivers #deltas

Caravaggio led a tumultuous life. He was notorious for brawling and violence. His paintings are also frequently violent and feature numerous scenarios of decapitation, here are 4, but there are many others.

#art #Caravaggio #painting

Nicola Perscheid - The Reaper, (1901).

Gum Bichromate print.

#photography #NicolaPerscheid #art

The Black Hole (1979) Dir Gary Nelson

Concept art by Peter Ellenshaw for the Disney oddity..

#filmtwitter #film #disney #PeterEllenshaw

Mythical headless men have been rumoured to exist in remote parts of the world since antiquity. These men come in two forms, eyes in the chest and eyes in the shoulders, both lacking heads. They are sometimes referred to as Blemmyes.

#history #Blemmyes #Antiquity #creatures

Some of the earliest colour photographs were taken by Louis Ducos du Hauron in 1879 based on a form of the three-color process that he called heliochromy. Three photographs were taken in three different colour filters..

#photography #film #colourfilm #colourphotography

In 1821 painter Théodore Géricault was invited to paint portraits of patients of his friend, Dr. Étienne-Jean Georget, a pioneer in psychiatric medicine. He painted the portraits quickly and were an attempt to bring dignity to the subjects..

#art #paintings #ThéodoreGéricault

Original poster art by Drew Struzan who was a prolific poster artist throughout the 70's through to the 2000's..

#filmtwitter #film #DrewStruzan #posterdesign #filmposters #movieposters