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Ethereally beautiful and wonderfully anachronistic, daguerreotypy is an art of an earlier age. Founded by its namesake, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, it was the Victorian-era precursor to photography, but has since largely been forgotten and its products mainly lost. In something of a resurrection, daguerreotypy is the subject of an exhibit, “A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard,” at the Fogg Art Museum...
From this beginning, daguerreotypy was also employed in cataloguing, in exquisitely grotesque detail, any number of deforming physical ailments confounding Victorian doctors. Contorted limbs, lesions and cancerous bumps provide morbid fascination as representative instances of medical and record through daguerreotypes...
...driving his kids to school. Emily, a computer consultant who has gone back to using her maiden name, Montague, was stopped near her suburban Los Angeles home. Michael Bortin, who runs Zen Hardwood Floors, was asleep when police called to say they were outside his Victorian house in Portland, Ore. A final suspect, James Kilgore, the only fugitive in the group, vanished decades ago and remains at large...
...such follies as the 1903 ad for "Men's Corsets, An Absolute Necessity," or the male stockings with fake calf muscles, but many of the body-distorting items in this exhibition are recent fashion misstatements. Categorized by anatomy--feet, waist, chest--this show is most surprising not when comparing Victorian support garments to the 2000 Issey Miyake bustier (above) but in its cross-cultural references. The Mongo women of Zaire, for example, wore a belt that looks like the tail of a Playboy Bunny...
There is no dome, no minaret, nothing but a small sign to indicate that this rundown Victorian house in the multiethnic south London neighborhood of Brixton is a mosque. But the fact that would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid and the alleged 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui both worshiped here during the mid-'90s has brought the Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre an unwelcome notoriety. Along with London's Finsbury Park Mosque and fundamentalist cleric Abu Qatada's prayer meetings near Baker Street, Brixton seemed yet another nexus of Islamic extremism in the capital...