On [:] Time | Lewis Carroll, 1865
Inge Morath, Winter carnival procession, Bad Gastein, Austria, 1955 “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense....
1860s
Stereosc2pe + | The Balcony / Edouard Manet / René Magritte, 1869-1950
Edouard Manet, The Balcony, 1869 ...
Caricature maps of the world | Paul Hadol / Sebastian Munster / William Harvey / Heinrich Bunting (1537-1915)
Heinrich Bunting, Map of Europe shaped as a virgin, 1582 Sebastian Munster, Europe, 1570 Sebastian Munster, Europe...
Days [ ) March | Charles Dickens, 1861
Victor Guidalevitch - An Alley of Trees in Sunlight Josef Breitenbach, Sunrise from my Window, 1951...
On [:] The horror and the ecstasy | Charles Baudelaire, 1865
Gustave Courbet, Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, 1849 . “As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings,...
A Birthday letter to Georgina Watson | Lewis Caroll, October 5, 1869
My dear Ina, Though I don’t give birthday presents, still I may write a birthday letter. I came to your...
Stereosc2pe + | The Wave | Gustave Courbet / Katsushika Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave, 1829–32 “The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” Vladimir Nabokov Gustave...
Blowing Bubbles | Édouard Manet / John Everett Millais / Paintings by Jean-Siméon Chardin / Thomas Couture, 1739-1895
Jean-Siméon Chardin, Soap Bubbles, 1739 ...
The Enigma of Venus & Isidore Ducasse | Man Ray, 1920-37
Man Ray, Venus, 1937 ...
Perfect strangers | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866
unknown “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once,...