A Uncommon Smile Captured in a nineteenth Century {Photograph}

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Simply take a look at this pho­to. Simply take a look at this younger lady’s smile. We all know her title: O‑o-be’, accord­ing to the Smith­son­ian. And we all know that she was a mem­ber of the Kiowa tribe within the Okla­homa Ter­ri­to­ry. And we all know that the pho­to was tak­en in 1894. However…

The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist {Photograph}, Dalí Atomicus (1948)

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Along with his cane, his well-known waxed mus­tache, and his behavior of tak­ing unusu­al ani­mals for walks, Sal­vador Dalí would seem to have cul­ti­vat­ed his personal pho­tographa­bil­i­ty. However tak­ing a pic­ture of the person who stood as a liv­ing def­i­n­i­tion of pop­u­lar sur­re­al­ism was­n’t a activity to be approached casu­al­ly — espe­cial­ly not for Philippe…