uncertaintimes:Harriet Quimby (1875-1912)
billyjane:Anonymous~Spiritualist Photography (Medium and Ghosts)c.1910
via Musée d’Orsay
i12bent:William Stroud (Nov. 8, 1812 - 1889): Sower’s Book, Stationery and Variety Store, Norristown, Pennsylvania (1/2 pl.), 1853 - Daguerreotype, fully silvered
Parsifal - pastel on paper, 1912
benhasten:Odilon Redon (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski
“…stripped of his helmet and lance, the warrior has been transformed into a magus, haunted by an inner dream. (…)
The rocky shapes in the foreground are reminiscent of the early etchings by Redon, influenced by Rodolphe Bresdin (1822-1885). Thus, Parsifal is one example of the artist returning to an earlier inspiration, references to which can be found in his diary:
‘Oh my soul of former times, distant spirit, you came back to me tonight in the shadows… my nocturnal friend who returns, then leaves, and who I thought had disappeared forever, what brings you back, and at this time? I do not know.’”
Via Museé d’Orsay
billyjane:obscure find of the day:a_k anonymous photomontage 1880
Tesla. July 10th, 1856. via pictura poesis
i12bent:November 7, 1908 is the likely death-day of outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, caught in a Bolivian cross-fire…
Image of Harry Longabaugh (the Sundance Kid) and Etta Place, just before they headed to South America…
i12bent:Robert LeRoy Parker (alias Butch Cassidy) poses in the Wild Bunch group photo, Fort Worth, Texas, 1901
i12bent:Birthday of a great heroine of science:
Marie Curie (Nov. 7, 1867 - 1934), one of only two people to receive two Nobel Prizes in two different disciplines, Chemistry (1903) and Physics (1911)
(The only other double Laureate across disciplines is Linus Pauling, who got the Prize in Chemistry and the Peace Prize. Two additional double Laureates have received their two Nobels in the same discipline: John Bardeen, twice in Physics; and Frederick Sanger, twice in Chemistry)
Madame Curie was born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw and lived there until she was 24. In 1891 she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she obtained her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. Her husband Pierre Curie was a Nobel co-laureate of hers, and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie and son-in-law Frédéric Joliot-Curie also received Nobel prizes.
Her achievements include the creation of a theory of radioactivity (a term coined by her), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium. It was also under her personal direction that the world’s first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms (cancers), using radioactive isotopes. (Wiki)
Photo of Marie Curie in her Paris lab, 1911
exclamationmark:The Pool (1912). Photography by Imogen Cunningham.
Atget ‘Paris’ 1890
Julia Margaret Cameron~Ellen Terry (aged 17) 1865 - Freshwater
via pictura poesis
ontheborderland:Ruth St. Denis in Jephtha’s Daughter, private performance, ca. 1906-08 via images.nypl.org
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