History KATSUMI WATANABE’s 1960s/70s Portraits From Tokyo’s Red Light District KATSUMI WATANABE (1941–2006) is one of Japan’s most well known photographers, who primarily took portraits of the women and men who worked and frequented... MeghanMay 1, 2024
Art See These Disturbing Photos from the 19th Century Parisian Asylum and Women’s Hospice: La Salpêtrière In 1656, King Louis XIV ordered the La Salpêtrière gunpowder factory to be converted to a hospice for poor women. His idea was to... MeghanSeptember 27, 2022
Art ÉDOUARD CHIMOT Portraits of 1920s Parisian Prostitution and Addiction Édouard Chimot rose to fame as an artist who captured Paris’ seedy underbelly in the early 1900s. His subjects were the “jeunes et jolies femmes”... MeghanApril 14, 2021