Pale Blue Dot Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out… Continue Reading
A Towering Monolith Reminiscent of the Film "2001" Recently, employees from the Utah Department of Public Safety happened upon a silver monolith in the remote desert while doing an aerial survey. The structure, almost 12-foot-tall,… Continue Reading
Photographer Develops 120-Year-Old Cat Photos https://youtu.be/IoDj4mXdqmc Continue Reading
Prince in 1977: Photos of his Purpleness Before the Fame The year was 1977. At the time, a 19-year-old kid named Prince Rogers Nelson was a complete unknown. No record contract. No hit singles. He’d… Continue Reading
Studies on Twilight Phenomena One of the most destructive and deadly volcanic events ever recorded occurred on August 27th, 1883, on a tiny island in Indonesia. The explosion of Krakatoa was heard over 3,000 miles… Continue Reading
When Louis Daguerre created the photographic process that bears his name (daguerreotype), he proudly proclaimed, "I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight." This image from 1838 by Daguerre is an example of… Continue Reading
Because of her Great Depression-era work with the Farm Security Administration, Dorothea Lange was already a noted documentary photographer by the time she joined the War Relocation Authority in 1941. She was involved with documenting… Continue Reading
Ogawa Kazumasa (1860–1929) was a photographer and printer in the Meija era. Besides the beautiful hand-colored flower collotypes here, his subjects included geisha in traditional Japanese costumes and landscapes of Mount Fuji. These images are… Continue Reading