2 posts tagged “19th century”
Brainstormixing is a site with a large cache of science magazine illustrations by the mysterious 'Poyet'. The engravings were done between 1870 and 1906. I knew of Poyet's work through the Tom Tit series, 'La Science Amusante' which is online at the Culture Archive. I haven't tried it but this Poyet site has plugins of some sort for cycling through the images on your desktop. I think they are intended to help inspire...something. Out of the 200+ illustrations I probably know what 2/3 or less of them actually depict.
The fellow in these amazing pictures is wearing a suit made from albumen prints but I'm not sure whether or not that camera hat actually worked. There were 4 such shots taken and it may or may not be a self portrait by Carleton E. Watkins from ~1870. There's also a photo of the same guy in kilt 10 years later.
"Often lauded as the most important American photographer of the 19th
century,
Watkins prodigious photographic record of the American West is unrivalled for the period."
Watkins prodigious photographic record of the American West is unrivalled for the period."
These were among a collection of 330 photographs that sold a couple of days ago for $70,000. [via]
{the above pics are made from spliced screencaps}
