Stories by prismatic

Yvette Borup Andrews: Photographing Central Asia

Chladni Figures (1787)

A 19th-Century Illustrator Found Beauty in the Slimiest of Sea Creatures

Illustrations from the Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier (1678)

Epic Ink: How Japanese Warrior Prints Popularized the Full-Body Tattoo

At the Solstice, in Praise of Darkness

The Problem of Colour

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

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