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The Woman Behind Critique My Dick Pic Sizes Up Art Photos of Male Nudes

by Christine Ro August 30, 2017August 31, 2017

In tongue-in-cheek answers, Madeleine Holden assigns a Critique My Dick Pic-style review and grade for artists’ photographs of male nudes, ranging from the late 19th century to today.

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Scientists Encode Living DNA with Muybridge’s Galloping Horse Film

by Allison Meier July 18, 2017July 18, 2017

Harvard scientists successfully recorded five frames of Eadweard Muybridge’s 1887 galloping horse on living bacteria, and retrieved the images in sequence.

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Metropolitan Museum Gives Unrestricted Access to 375,000 Images

by Claire Voon February 7, 2017

Under the institution’s new Open Access policy, images of hundreds of thousands of works from its collection are available to copy, remix, and distribute freely.

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The Scientist Who Shot His Photos with a Gun and Inspired Futurism

by Allison Meier May 11, 2015May 13, 2015

The phased movement of Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” (1912) and the frenetic action embodied in Futurism were both inspired by the 19th-century photography of scientist Étienne-Jules Marey.

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What Did Disability Look Like in the 19th Century?

by Allison Meier July 15, 2014July 19, 2014

Clubs for ugly people, ear trumpets designed for mourners, mesmerism as a cure — disability in the 19th century reflected all of the Victorian era’s oddities and societal changes. Nineteenth-Century Disability: Cultures & Contexts is a digital research archive of text and images on this more overlooked aspect of history.

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Seeing Double: When a Muybridge Isn’t a Muybridge

by Hrag Vartanian June 23, 2010

In a weeklong series, critic and journalist Tyler Green is exploring the attribution of some of Eadweard Muybridge’s images and the possibility that they were in fact from other photographers, such as Muybridge’s friend and rival Carleton Watkins.

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