In 1980s German Democratic Republic, also known as East Germany, a group of artists who called themselves Autoperforationsartisten, or “self-perforation artists,” decided to undermine...
Middle Eastern witchcraft is a combination of ancient Persian mythology and Islamic beliefs rolled into an interesting form of occultism that is still practiced...
Looking at Kansuke Yamamoto’s photographs, it’s easy to overlook the fact that in creating these surreal images, he was risking imprisonment. In the mid-1950s, Japan...