Dreamers Rise

This hardbound German-language "Golden Jubilee Calendar" was issued in New York in 1898. An item in Publisher's Weekly (Decem...

Evening has come. I have lit my lamp and shut out the night. My Bible lies close at hand on the table by the bed, and in a few moments -- as...

These images -- I believe they're chromolithographs, but don't quote me on it -- are souvenir or advertising cards commemorating the...

The remarkable properties of everyday products, from 19th-century advertising cards.

Two American artists who, working separately, have each adapted traditional Japanese techniques for use in their work. First, Kit Eastman, w...

Werner Herzog: Our civilization doesn't have adequate images. And I think a civilization is doomed or is going to die out like dinosaurs...

The little brook collected somewhere in the hills just out of town. When it reached the state road it trickled in and out of culverts and ca...

New work by Carla Rippey, at El uso de la memoria . Rippey writes: I have to make clear that I use cultural elements from “elsewhere” as an ...

This splendid 1992 volume of photographs, sadly no longer in print, is the work of the American photographer Linda Butler, who has an unca...

The weekend after the burial the relatives came with a van and carted off what they wanted, the things that still had some use in them. They...

Following up on my last post about Rafe Martin's Mysterious Tales of Japan , with pictures by Tatsuro Kiuchi , here are some samples of...

There are countless illustrated versions of Lafcadio Hearn's Japanese ghost stories, but I have a fondness for this one, which was publi...

Lafcadio Hearn: By the use of a few chosen words the composer of a short poem endeavors to do exactly what the painter endeavors to do with ...

This image of the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte on the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena was presumably taken sometime during the period fro...