Hunter Dukes

A pre-history of the sentence diagrams that were once commonplace in the American classroom.

Hollywood's first natural-color feature film and the breakout role for Anna May Wong, considered the first Chinese American movie star.

These caricatures of well-known Philadelphians transpose human heads onto animal forms.

One of the earliest uses of intertitles, in this fin-de-siècle accident picture we can observe cinema discovering new forms of communication.

Observing the visible features of Martian landscapes, Giovanni Schiaparelli began seeing things almost immediately.

For the Polish educator Antoni Jażwiński, history was best represented by an abstract grid.

What if chairs could shift our state of consciousness, transporting the imagination into distant landscapes and ecstatic experiences, both religious and erotic?