Crow In Snow

I normally try to keep this blog strictly about the glory that is art history, but I can’t avoid sharing a good architecture pun!

Peter Capaldi as Birgo Lander, Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997), directed by Bille August

Visited my mom the other day 'cause one of her fav movies was on TV, and I did n o t expect to see him in there, being so young.

Victorian drag portraits, anyone?

These photos (1, 2, 3) from the James Gardiner Collection are open access and available to view on JSTOR courtesy of the Wellcome Collection.

Dating from the 1850s to 1890s, the hand-colored portraits come from a Victorian album of 35 cartes de visite showing private and theatrical female impersonation. While many of these performances were intended as entertainment, the images also gesture toward gender nonconformity and queer expression.