Satire on False Perspective by William Hogarth (1753).
Whoever makes a Design without the knowledge of Perspective will be liable to such absurdities as are shewn in this Frontispiece.
More eye-deceiving art for All Fools’ Day. Everyone knows MC Escher’s pictures which continually played with the rules of perspective. Hogarth’s satire is less well-known and may even [...]
The Crystal Gazer (or The Magic Crystal, 1904).
The photographs of Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934) seem to be popular with art directors; the picture above was used on the sleeve of the Spangle Maker EP by the Cocteau Twins in 1984 and her Silhouette of a Woman / A Maiden at Prayer (1899) appeared on the cover [...]
Maiden-hair fern.
Photogravures by Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932). More here.
Tendrils of a pumpkin.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The Dawn of the Autochrome
• Fred Holland Day
• The Door in the Wall
• Edward Steichen
• Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla
Young couple with motor car, c.1910. Photographer unknown.
An exhibition of extraordinary Edwardian colour photographs opens today at the National Media Museum, London Bradford.
This exhibition will open on the 25th May. Marking one hundred years of the first practical process for colour photography—the Autochrome, invented by the Lumiere brothers—the National Media Museum presents a major summer [...]
The cult writer is about to publish his first novel for nine years. But the best-selling author of V and Gravity’s Rainbow remains an enigma to his millions of fans. By Louise Jury
August 17, 2006
The Independent
He is so elusive a writer that he makes Harper Lee appear a socialite. He gives no interviews and shuns [...]
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