Photograph
Label reads:
New Hebrides/
Sacred Stone
Belonging to man giving up his gods & rescued from fire
Curator’s comments
From acquisition notes “sacred”.
Acquisition date
1944The British Museum
Berdaguer & Péjus (CBMP) ”Gue(ho)st House” Delme, France (©OHDancy photographe)
(via says-lets-build-a-home)
La Tourgue.
Victor Hugo, from Ninety-three vol. 2, by Victor Hugo, London, New York, 1889.
(Source: archive.org)
Magic curse against enemies in a trial, written on a lead figurine put in a lead box, found in the enclosure of Aristion, and dating from 420-410 BC.
(via centuriespast)
Entrance to the Temple of Minakshi in the great Pagoda
- Object:
- Place of origin:
Madura, India (photographed)
- Date:
January 1858-March 1858 (photographed)
1860 (published)- Artist/Maker:
Tripe, Linnaeus, born 1822 - died 1902 (photographer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Albumen print from waxed paper (calotype) negative
- Credit Line:
Given by Lady Denison
Vicoria and Albert Museum
Marina Richter manages to transform anything in an object of enjoyment, without ever being too much satisfying aesthetically and too suggestive with regard to iconography. Her subjects, whether they are flowerss in a meadow, a hand holding a glass of milk or the simple profile of a girl’s face, all participate to a miniaturised reality that changes into exotic what is familiar and habitual. They are anything but innocent pictures: they manage to freeze time and show us the confusion between truth and beauty. This is the new vision.
Marina Richter was born in Hoyerswerda (Germany), now she live in Saarbrücken. This is her website.
