Dreamers Rise

"A street car went through this viaduct several years ago killing all passengers." Postcard, the Rotograph Co., probably printed b...

Belle époque Paris boasted its arcades and flâneurs ; turn-of-the-century Manhattan had strolls under the El. This postcard, which was mail...

This postcard was mailed from Noboribetsu on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on May 12, 1914 and addressed to E. J. Thompkins in Alb...

Below, two more examples of the mutability of historical images, as filtered through various technologies employed in the mass reproduction ...

This tinted postcard depicts the Bowery in Manhattan, probably between 1901 and 1905. It was published by A. C. Bosselman & Co. of New Y...

The image above, hand-dated 1905, probably depicts the bell at the Chion-in Temple, which is said to be Japan's largest. It appears to b...

Julio Cortázar's collections La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos ("Around the Day in Eighty Worlds") and Último Round ("...

This Signet edition of Julio Cortázar's most famous novel was the first American paperback publication, issued in December 1967. I don...

It's been raining since morning and the wind has been driving drops like shotgun pellets against the windows of my room for hours. Outsi...

There are some disadvantages to living in the shadow of a cultural capital, and one of them is not being sufficiently exposed to work by art...

In our image-saturated culture it may be hard to imagine a time when the average European's exposure to visual representations of the wo...