Unable to breathe, patients entered iron lungs, which made use of negative pressure ventilation to compress and depress the chest, simulating respiration.
In the early...
Christmas is usually associated with comfort and cheer, but these images tell a very different story.
Far from the warm and jolly figure known today,...
The stiff expressions frozen in Victorian photographs have helped cement the idea of an era defined by severity and restraint.
Those solemn faces, staring straight...
In the years before she became synonymous with glossy television drama and sharp-tongued glamour, Joan Collins was already building a reputation as one of...
Long before smartphone cameras and instant uploads, the family portrait was a carefully staged event.
In the 1990s, visiting a photography studio was both a...
Long before dating apps compressed romance into swipes and algorithms, desire traveled by newsprint. In the back pages of local papers and alternative weeklies,...
Long before paint was brushed on chapel ceilings or monuments carved in stone, humans were already shaping the walls of the earth into extraordinary...
Throughout six decades of cinema, few images have proved as enduring as the Bond girl stepping into frame, captivating audiences while standing beside the...
In 1946, a group of Russian children from the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization (a Soviet scouting group) presented a carved wooden replica of...
Christmas is usually associated with comfort and cheer, but these images tell a very different story.
Far from the warm and jolly figure known today,...
The stiff expressions frozen in Victorian photographs have helped cement the idea of an era defined by severity and restraint.
Those solemn faces, staring straight...
In the years before she became synonymous with glossy television drama and sharp-tongued glamour, Joan Collins was already building a reputation as one of...
Long before smartphone cameras and instant uploads, the family portrait was a carefully staged event.
In the 1990s, visiting a photography studio was both a...
Long before dating apps compressed romance into swipes and algorithms, desire traveled by newsprint. In the back pages of local papers and alternative weeklies,...
Long before paint was brushed on chapel ceilings or monuments carved in stone, humans were already shaping the walls of the earth into extraordinary...
Throughout six decades of cinema, few images have proved as enduring as the Bond girl stepping into frame, captivating audiences while standing beside the...
Few figures of the twentieth century have left behind a presence as unmistakable as Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
His image, reproduced on posters, album covers, and...