odditiesoflife:

Victorian Headless Portraits

The Victorian era has many photographs, most of which show the subject sitting or standing with a stern expression. Since photography was still in its infancy, photographers were experimenting with novel ways to create photos that differed from the norm. Animals acting human was one popular concept, and then came the headless portrait. Funny and entertaining, a new genre of photography was born.

odditiesoflife:

A Woman of Art and Science

April 2nd marks the birth of a very important female scientist that was ahead of her time. The artistic and scientific explorations of German artist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) helped pioneer the way for other women in science. Enterprising and adventurous, Merian raised the artistic standards of natural history illustration and helped transform the field of entomology, the study of insects.

In 1670, she and her husband moved to Nuremberg, where Merian published her first set of illustrated books. In preparation for a catalogue of European moths, butterflies, and other insects, Merian collected, raised, and observed living insects, rather than working from preserved specimens.

At the age of 52 and divorced, Merian and her younger daughter embarked on a dangerous trip to the Dutch colony of Suriname, in South America, without a male companion. Merian spent the next two years studying and drawing the indigenous flora and fauna within their natural habitats. Forced home by malaria, Merian published Insects of Surinam, her most significant book, in 1705. The lavishly illustrated book forever established her international reputation as an accomplished woman of science.

agypsysoultoblame:

The many faces of rape

Heart breaking.

(Source: newbyoes)

megamanxvx:

katswg:

Victims of Amherst College’s rape cover-ups and the disgusting things said to them

Photographs by Jisoo Lee

Project by It Happens Here — Dana Bolger, Kinjal Patel, Sonum Dixit

this is all so disgusting

my-little-time-machine:

Woman Knitting Sock Outdoors, Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), American, Museum of Fine Arts Boston 

(Source: summerturban)

day two hundred and thirty seven (by Ana Luísa Pinto [Luminous Photography])

photoholic:

little bouquet (by sue.h)

vintagegal:

Unknown fashionable man in Harlem, New York c. 1930’s

raspberrytart:

(by say.today)

thefabulousforties:

American Beauty: 1940 

mudwerks:

July 1940. “Near Shawboro, North Carolina. Group of Florida migrants on their way to Cranberry, New Jersey, to pick potatoes.” Medium-format safety negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

(Source: tumblush)

firsttimeuser:

Westminster Bridge, 1903 by Maximilian Toch

vintagemarlene:

the louvre version of the mona lisa (left) is oil on poplar wood and the isleworth mona lisa (center) is oil on canvas.  the copy on the right c. 1503-1506 is oil on walnut panel. (source: www.raggedclaws.com)

sisterwolf:

Jules Emile Saintin - Little Girl With Umbrella, 1882