Galleries

The ancient Roman poet Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ depicts women turning into elements of the natural world. A shift from the male gaze in art occurs during the Renaissance period when women begin to represent themselves through self-portraits. By the 1970s and 1980s, self-portraits become tools that allow women to redefine themselves through transformation: they play with […]

With a patent application first lodged by the Lumière brothers in late 1903, autochrome was an additive three-colour photographic process. It consists of a mosaic of colours on a glass plate, designed to be viewed using hand-held devices or projected using carbon arc lamps. https://www.europeana.eu/en/galleries/9046-autochrome

Photographer Wilhelm Weimar (1857-1917) had a highly individual style. His ‘Herbarium’ of 1901 is a unique portfolio of organic compositions that testifies to his striking sense of composition, texture and detail. https://www.europeana.eu/en/galleries/8995-wilhelm-weimar