Photographer Eugène Atget is best known as a chronicler of a romantic, if disappearing, Paris around the turn of the 20th century. This book presents a series of postcards depicting Paris’s petits mét
In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the world, and billions of cards were bought, mailed and pasted into albums
Nearly every empire worthy of the name--from ancient Rome to the United States--hassought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks--giant standingstones, invented in
