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Tatiana Kiryukhina
Contributing Writer
Tatiana Kiryukhina is a retroworm and a vintage hunter from Russia. Nowadays she is working at Picryl, the largest public domain media search engine. With the access to millions of old images she discovers rare photographs, travel back in time, witness historical moments, explore places and many more. She shares some of her findings here.
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Every field has its revolutionaries – dance is no different.
Way before there was Cracked or Mad magazine, there was Puck, a weekly satirical publication that came out of St. Louis, Missouri in 1871. Here are some of the incredible full-color illustrations of that era's political issues.
Who was the father of American photojournalism? Here's a look at the Civil War work of Mathew Brady.
A spiritual journey through the world beyond the grave, a hell, a purgatory, and a paradise is considered a masterwork of world literature.
Soon after the 9/11 attacks, the Library of Congress started to gather pictures, photographs, poems and other material for preservation.
One of the famous ukiyo-e admirers was French artist, Vincent van Gogh. He was a versed collector of Japanese prints, claimed that all of his work is founded on Japanese art.
Wake up and smell the independence. Thomas Jefferson urged 18th century Americans to think of themselves not as colonial Englishmen, but as a new culture. To that end, he used architecture to serve as a visual reminder of America's proud new direction.