Today let’s discover an extraordinary talented and adventurous photograph : Gregory Colbert. What is absolutely astonishing with him is his sense of poetry, it is obvious with his project called : Ashes and Snow. Indeed the theme in this project is the relation between human and animals. it’s an ongoing project comprised of photographic artworks,…
Henry McCarty (1859 – 1881), better known as Billy the Kid. He was a gunman who is famous because he participated in the Lincoln County War. He also became an outlaw in the Old West. It is said that he killed between 8 to more than 20 men; never the less what is certain is that his first…
Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (1901 – 1966) was an American business magnate, cartoonist, animator, voice actor, and film producer. The great-grandfather of Walt Disney was a descendant of Robert d’Isigny, a French who came in England with William the Conqueror in 1066. From D’Isigny it became Disney in english. Disney passion for drawing came in 1906…
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was the founder of the French Chanel brand. Chanel, 37 years old Her mother died in 1895 when she was only 12. Channel’s father placed her and her 2 sisters in an orphanage where she developed her mythomania, indeed she invented a life concerning…
Born in 1821 and died in 1967 at 46 years old. Charles Beaudelaire lost his father at the age of 6. He had an agitated life. Indeed, he failed in high school, was even expelled from college. After that he was addicted to drugs, and had major debts, so many that he lived in more…
This is the Oldest Book of the world, The Etruscan book of gold, written 2673 years ago. Etruscans were an ancient group who moved from Lydia (now in Turkey) to central Italy nearly 3 thousand years ago, which gave the name of the city Toscana. The book was made for the funeral of an aristocrat…
Edgar Allan Poe, 40 years old, “Annie” daguerreotype, 1849, the year he died. Intelligent and feroce at the same time, Poe wasn’t appreciated by everyone. His friends were often shocked by his clothes excessively neat and his excellent elocution. He officially died on 7th of October 1849 due to a “congestion of the brain”. But the cause…
Victor Hugo, Jersey in 1853, By Auguste Vacquerie Born in 1802, Hugo was a successful writer of his time and a political personality. His strong opposition to Napoleon III and his “coup d’Etat”offered him popularity in France but at a price of an exile.
From Cool Jazz to Hard bop and then Jazz Modal this tormented genius had to fight against a lot of demons before being able the shake hands with the devil and finally make peace with himself. Indeed, The separation with his first wife Juliette Gréco in 1949 because of the shadow of racism in USA…
Just another WordPress.com site with thoughts by Marcus Ampe
The Perry County Historical and Cultural Arts Society
Cutting edge Multimedia Programming
Photoblog of Joshi Daniel
Arts & History 