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‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.
This photograph was made on a commercial assignment for IBM.
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Jacek Yerka, Eruption
i like tumblr because occasionally i’ll be recommended a 12 year old post that depicts something so absolutely my shit that it makes me believe in art again
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Wheatfield with Mountains in the Background (1889) by Vincent van Gogh
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Kalmykia Europe's only Buddhist Republic
Kalmykia is an autonomous republic located in the steppes of western Russia formed while Lenin was the leader of the USSR. The republic was created for the national-self determination of the Kalmyk people, Europe's only indigenous Buddhist population.
Kalmyks are mainly descendants of Oirats from Dzungaria who migrated through the steppes and first inhabited the Volga region in western Russia, but as a group they've also mixed with ethnic Russian peasants, Don Cossacks, North Caucasian people, and Kazakhs.
Due to internal strife among different clans in Kalmykia, many Kalmyks sought refugee in the neighbouring Don Cossack lands. Eventually most of those Kalmyks became a part of the Don Cossack Army, and developed into their own sub-ethnic group known as the Buzava or Don Kalmyks. The Buzava adopted much of Don Cossack culture, and intermixture between both groups was common; however, they were able to preserve a unique identity due to maintaining their own language and religion though most also spoke Russian. In the flag of the Don Cossacks the first blue vertical stripe represents the Kalmyks, with its origins in a law formulated during the existence of the temporal Don Republic stating: "Three nationalities have lived on the Don land since ancient times and constitute the indigenous citizens of the Don region - the Don Cossacks, Kalmyks and Russian peasants. Their national colours were: the Don Cossacks - blue, cornflower blue, the Kalmyks - yellow and the Russians - scarlet. "
Photo source: "Kalmykia, Chess, and Buddha" - Tomas van Houtryve
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Jesse Graffam
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/ Lovell Birge Harrison, Fifth Avenue at Twilight, 1910
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Peter Brown (British b.1967), Christmas, Combe Park, 2019, Oil