différence & répétition

Venetian Onion Seller (John Singer Sargent, 1882)

For #NationalPigeonDay, photographs taken by Dr Julius Neubronner’s ingenious “pigeon camera”, circa 1908. More pics, and the story, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dr-julius-neubronner-s-miniature-pigeon-camera

🦥 The handy natural history Boston, R.G. Badger, The Gorham press, 1910. Original source Image description: Historical natural history illustration labeled “Plate XXXI” from 1910, depicting five animals: 1) Armadillo with a segmented, armored shell and clawed feet; 2) Three-toed sloth hanging upside down from a branch, showing long claws and shaggy fur; 3) Pangolin covered in large overlapping scales with a long tail; 4) Wombat, a stout, furry marsupial with a blunt snout and short legs; 5) Great Anteater with an elongated snout, curved claws, thick fur, and a bushy tail. The detailed, color lithographs highlight distinctive physical traits of these related mammals, emphasizing the sloth’s specialized limbs and slow-moving arboreal lifestyle.

Emily Dickinson

NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.

© Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984, American photographer)

"The Concourse of the Birds", folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds), painting by Habiballah of Sava (Iranian, active ca. 1590–1610), author: Farid al-Din `Attar (Iranian, Nishapur ca. 1142–ca. 1220 Nishapur), ca. 1600, Isfahan, Iran; ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper (The Met)

Ken Domon Right and left hand of the sitting image of Buddha Shakyamuni, in the Hall of Miroku, Nara, 1942

sunrise - louise glück

prints of this available now :)

reproduction of a terracotta girl on a swing, cast originally minoan, agean islands, greece c. 1600-1450 b.c.

im in love—these are utterly mesmerising Merab Abramishvili

Apollo 8, speaking to Earth from lunar orbit, Christmas Eve 1968

A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)

Edward Gorey's wonderfully odd Christmas illustration

source: Modena, Biblioteca Estense, MS.V.G.12 (= Lat. 422)

shit man this got me emotional

right: the Webb Space Telescope photo, July 2022, revealing thousands of baby galaxies forming in the early days of the universe - humankind’s deepest look into the sky

Glimmering, Amy Friend