Dorothea Lange
Tractored Out (Power farming displaces tenants from the land in the western dry cotton area), Childress County, Texas Panhandle, 1938
gelatin silver print, 9 15/16 in. x 13 inches (25.24 cm x 33.02 cm)
Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away), 2001 (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
omg i want to own this shirt
Cadillac Bicycle 1998
“Identity Crises” by Jennifer Camper
Rude Girls and Dangerous Women, 1994
Man Ray - Lee Miller And Friend, 1930
Libraries give us Power Books make us Free by Mina Bach
A celebration of the public library system, reading and books.
150 x 240mm, 140 pages, hand bound.
Automat
abbott 1936
RACHEL
William Sharp, one of the first chromolithographic printers in the U.S., created these extraordinary illustrations for the large folio Victoria Regia (1854) by John Fisk Allen. Allen, a well-known horticulturalist, cultivated a specimen of the rare, huge (up to 8 feet in diameter), fast-growing (up to an inch an hour!) water lily, native to the Amazon. After months of careful tending, the plant—named in honor of the recently-crowned Queen Victoria—blossomed on the evening of July 21, 1853. Sharp’s depictions of this exotic wonder—in various stages of bloom—were masterpieces and elevated the then-nascent art of chromolithography to spectacular new heights.
image captions: All images are from a copy of Victoria Regia in our collections. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
