It's spooky month! So it's time for a spooky Herz headshot. I'm sure those bloodcolored eyes don't mean anything... right?

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Patterned Connection, People of Color Series number 180, by Jimmy James Greene. matted and framed 16x20 $350

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"Stellatum Planisphaerium" - handcolored engraving by Louis Vlasblom and Johannes van Keulen, Netherlands, c. 1675; a double hemisphere planisphere with additional illustrations of the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems https://t.co/aQjPW3fQvL

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Photographer: Baron Raimund von Stillfried (1839–1911)

Japanese wrestlers

between 1871 and 1885

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Photographer: Unidentified

Catching Firefly

1870s-1880s

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Photographer: Felice Beato (Italian, 1834–1907)

Shamisen

1860s

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Photographer: Kusakabe Kimbei (Japanese, 1841–1934)

Group of Children

1870s - 1890s

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Photographer: Adolfo Farsari (Italian, 1841–1898)

Osuwa-Temple, Nagasaki

circa 1880

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Photographer: Unknown, 19th century

Yokohama

about 1900

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Artist unidentified, Japanese

Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto

about 1885

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Kajima Seibei (鹿島 清兵衛, 1866–1924)

Portal Miyajima, Inland Sea (Itsukushima Floating Torii Gate)

1890s

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Unknown artist, Japan

Unidentified pagoda (probably Nara), Japan, Meiji period

between 1880 and 1900

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Unknown artist, Japan

Dancing Party

between 1880 and 1900

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Unknown artist, Japan

Street Singers

between 1880 and 1900

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Less Than Meets The Eye?

The River Gods in these 17th c. maps of Switzerland by Claes Jansz. Visscher ( Visscher 87-88) may be minimally attired, but the censored handcolored version suggestively emphasizes non-existent details!

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Photographer: Kusakabe Kimbei (Japanese, 1841–1934)

Flower Show

1870s - 1890s

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Photographer: Adolfo Farsari (Italian, 1841–1898)

4 Graces

Circa late 1880s

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Photographer: Kajima Seibei (Osaka, Japan 1866 - 1924)

Itsukushima Floating Torii Gate

c. 1890

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