Physica Curiosa

[femalephotographersofhistory]

Ptilota sericea

date: 1843

taken by: Anna Atkins

source: The Public Domain Review

This is a cyanotype, a photography technique invented in 1842 wherein you place an object on a paper coated with iron salts and then expose it to sunlight. This creates a white image on a blue background.

This cyanotype shows the plant "soft feather weed", the scientific name of which has today been changed to Plumaria plumosa. It was made by the English botanist Anna Atkins (1799-1871) and published in "Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions" (1843), often regarded as the first book to ever be illustrated with photographs.

(Anna Atkins photographed in 1861)

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THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES 'Նռան գույնը' dir. Sergei Parajanov, 1969

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THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES 'Նռան գույնը' dir. Sergei Parajanov, 1969

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Pale Fire

[leahberman]

painted peaks; death valley, california

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“Never trust the living”

Grave of Antoine Michel Wemaer,  Assebroek Cemetery, Assebroek, Arrondissement Brugge, West Flanders, Belgium,

A merchant-turned-pirate who died in 1837.

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Hermann Nitsch - Splatter painting with impasto painting

[archiveofcanvas]

paul thek Untitled (Black and White Birds and Mushroom), c. 1969, gouache on newspaper

[jamabushi]

in violent times you shouldn't have to sell your soul

[requiem-on-water]

“I’ll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea, as a uselessly existing ship that floats on the surface of everything.”

Aftermath by Øystein Sture Aspelund

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Hour of the Wolf (1968) by Ingmar Bergman

[toiich]

Persona (1966), dir. Ingmar Bergman

[shihlun]

Jonas Mekas

- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000

[funeral]

Lost, Lost, Lost (Jonas Mekas, 1976)

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Mural sobre el bar ‘Silueta de Guadalajara de día y de noche’ de Mathias Goeritz, Club de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México 1950 (destruido)

Mural over the bar 'Silhouette of Guadalajara by day and night’ by Mathias Goeritz, Club de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico 1950 (destroyed)

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Sally Muir, Scribble dog

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Portrait of a Young Woman

by Cecilia Beaux (American, 1855-1942)