"To isolate and pointedly categorize the anonymous is to postulate something both unusual and intriguing....The anonymous photograph...makes us ask, with new concentration, what it is about a photogra…
Shelve Anonymous: Enigmatic Images from Unknown Photographers
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness. From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaura…
Shelve Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris
The idea of ‘art photography’ is nearly as old as photography itself, but it wasn ’ t until the 1850s that photographers began to claim fine -‐ art status for their work. Debates about photography and…
Shelve Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography (National Portrait Gallery)
Explore the essential role art and objects played for mediums and magicians “communicating” with the dead during the 19th- and 20th-century Spiritualism movement in the U.S. and Europe — a time when p…
Shelve Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums
Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Christopher Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not only buildings, streets, and people, but was also a state of mind which will never come around again…
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, stories — of its title character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of inspiration to create the most compl…
Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror, directed by German director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau in 1922, is not only regarded as one of the most intriguing and disquieting films to have been produced during th…
Shelve Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Devil's Advocates)
