History

Amsterdam Anne Frank - past and present

14-05-2023

Amsterdam Anne Frank - past and present

The Anne Frank House Museum is one of the most popular buildings in Amsterdam. The famous diaries of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who ...

The Soviet era in iconic photographs by Markov-Grinberg

13-05-2023

The Soviet era in iconic photographs by Markov-Grinberg

On November 7, 1907, the famous photojournalist Mark Markov-Grinberg was born in Rostov-on-Don. His works, which have become real ...

Crazed Mercenaries: 5 famous founders of private military companies in history who shocked the world

12-05-2023

Crazed Mercenaries: 5 famous founders of private military ...

Reckless adventurers, robbers - condottieres. At one time, the name of each of them thundered throughout Europe. Fate is cruel to ...

Vibrant footage of Prohibition-era Los Angeles

07-05-2023

Vibrant footage of Prohibition-era Los Angeles

I stumbled upon the archive of the Los Angeles Times newspaper and could not get past their photos from the Prohibition era. ...

The Soviet Union in 1935 through the lens of a Norwegian photographer

04-05-2023

The Soviet Union in 1935 through the lens of a Norwegian ...

In this issue you will see photographs taken in 1935 by Norwegian photographer Eirik Sundvor. Erik Sandvor (1902 - 1992) was a ...

Why were castles built? Why couldn't they be bypassed?

03-05-2023

Why were castles built? Why couldn't they be bypassed?

Imagine that you are a medieval European feudal lord. You have been at enmity with the neighboring seigneur for a long time because ...

London Underground 70-80s

01-05-2023

London Underground 70-80s

The metro can rightfully be called a "cultural cauldron", in which hundreds of thousands of representatives of various ...

Historical hodgepodge: 10 photos from the past that are interesting to consider

01-05-2023

Historical hodgepodge: 10 photos from the past that are ...

Historical photographs are often underestimated, and after all, they can not only study the past but also completely immerse ...

Epochal retro photos in color

01-05-2023

Epochal retro photos in color

Black and white photographs have been given a new life in color. People tend to go back to history in an attempt to rethink the ...

Children of America

28-04-2023

Children of America

You can love the United States, you can hate it, but the fact that this country has turned from backward to the most powerful in ...

The most popular archive photos in 2013

28-04-2023

The most popular archive photos in 2013

One of the most famous sites in recent times – Pinterest – has published the most popular archive photos among its subscribers. ...

Soviet Uzbekistan in 1966

25-04-2023

Soviet Uzbekistan in 1966

Photos taken in 1966 in the city of Bukhara, Uzbekistan. If someone has the opportunity - tell us in the comments what Bukhara ...

Without the image of the enemy: Photo by a Hungarian war correspondent

24-04-2023

Without the image of the enemy: Photo by a Hungarian war ...

Tamas Konok Sr. is a Hungarian war correspondent who captured in his black-and-white and color photographs of 1942 the bend of the ...

Honesty without halftones. Photo classic Richard Avedon

23-04-2023

Honesty without halftones. Photo classic Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon is the author of the most uncompromising black and white portraits, a classic of fashion photography. Seamless white ...

Photos of the Romanov family that you hardly saw

23-04-2023

Photos of the Romanov family that you hardly saw

A close friend of Russia's last imperial family took a whole series of "unofficial" photographs of the Romanovs, ...

7 vivid images of Cleopatra on our screen

21-04-2023

7 vivid images of Cleopatra on our screen

The name of this woman has become synonymous with "eternal" beauty. That is why filmmakers chose actresses with memorable faces to ...

40 nostalgic frames - Yalta in the 90s through the lens of a British photographer

19-04-2023

40 nostalgic frames - Yalta in the 90s through the lens of a ...

Martin Parr is a controversial British photojournalist whose world view is ironic and his art style is provocative. In his photo ...

Ah, Arbat, my Arbat...

16-04-2023

Ah, Arbat, my Arbat...

Alexander Nankin aka skif_tag writes: “Each pebble is familiar to me in the town where I was born and raised. And how funny it is ...

What did the usual household appliances look like at the dawn of their appearance

14-04-2023

What did the usual household appliances look like at the dawn ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first Philips laboratory, which appeared in the Dutch Eindhoven. Incandescent lamps, ...

Beach fashion of the 20-30s of the XX century

11-04-2023

Beach fashion of the 20-30s of the XX century

We present to your attention a selection of photos about the beach fashion of the 20-30s of the twentieth century. Beach fashion ...

What was considered normal to do in ancient Greece, what is now strictly forbidden to do in modern Athens

10-04-2023

What was considered normal to do in ancient Greece, what is ...

Ancient Greece had a rich and complex culture that had a significant impact on modern Western society. However, many practices that ...

Historical images from different parts of the world that evoke a variety of emotions

09-04-2023

Historical images from different parts of the world that ...

Let's dive into history through photography. In the selection below, you will see the life of people from different countries, ...

45 photos that will change your view of the past

08-04-2023

45 photos that will change your view of the past

The celebrities we're used to seeing on screen or in the history books, outside of all the hype around them, are ordinary ...

The first roles of Hollywood actors: no one knew them, but you can immediately see - a star

07-04-2023

The first roles of Hollywood actors: no one knew them, but ...

Hollywood actors began their careers long before their popularity. Often, future stars tried themselves in the cinema in early ...

To the 45th anniversary of the legendary festival: still unseen photos of Woodstock

05-04-2023

To the 45th anniversary of the legendary festival: still ...

Woodstock is not only one of the most famous music festivals of all time, but also one of the defining moments of the 1960s ...

Representatives of the LGBT community at the beginning of the last century

05-04-2023

Representatives of the LGBT community at the beginning of the ...

Once upon a time, a vintage photo album fell into the hands of the French cinematographer Sebastian Lifshitz, in which the life of ...