Stories by prismatic

Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’

David Hockney: More Light

Outing the Inside: On Louise Bourgeois

The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)

Clearing Up Some Myths About Victorian ‘Post-Mortem’ Photographs

A short history of flash photography

How many colours were there in a medieval rainbow?

The History of Photography Is a History of Shattered Glass

The Ancient Roman Cult That Continues to Vex Scholars

How an Amateur Astronomer Became One of History’s Great Solar Observers

Ancient Islamic Penrose Tiles (2007)

A Man Who Photographed Ghosts

A vision of Middle-earth

The Rich History of Color, and Why It’s So Hard to Choose a Favorite

Double Exposure: Jean-Pierre Melville

How the human got his paintbrush

The Grim Crime-Scene Dollhouses Made by the ‘Mother of Forensics’

The Art of James Castle, Created with Spit, Scraps, and Soot

The Stubborn Genius of Auguste Rodin

A portrait of the artists as a pair of young wastrels

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