Hands of Marcel Cerdan
Are these the hands of a gentleman? Or a man licensed to kill who hung…
Browsing: Arts
The Card Players. What’s Going On Here?
Or what’s not going on here? This is the best known of post-impressionist Paul Cézanne’s…
Thomas Hart Benton’s “The Lord Is My Shepherd” With TD’s Parody
This is a remarkable painting of George and Sabrina West who lived on Martha’s Vineyard.…
Valentine’s Day: 14 Different Views of Love
Geoffrey Chaucer started it all back in 1382: he was the first to associate Valentine’s…
An Artist Who Uses A Camera… Charles Laurier Dufour
TD knew from the beginning that high-end whisky drinkers have an unusually high affinity for photography…
Maine…and the light that falls upon it.
Editor’s Note: TD is pleased to announce the first in a series of major collaborations…
Shifting Gears With Tracy Ward Photography
Editor’s Note: One of the great things about editing a website about transcendental things is…
“Christina’s World” Re-imagined
Just as the great American artist Andrew Wyeth took some liberties with his painting of…
Camera Art, A Focus on Ian Horne’s Scotland
Editor’s Note: Ian Horne is a regular contributor to TD’s Facebook page where his “camera…
As Ralph Steadman’s Sees The Whisky Regions of Scottland
Islay Islay malts are known particularly for their peatiness, and a strong salt-sprayed , aye,…
Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks”
Edward Hopper’s iconic 1942 painting of a diner at night in Greenwich Village, New York…
The Ways of Whisky and Water
Rene Magritte got this one wrong if you are out and about dramming and it…
American Gothic
Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” is one of the most familiar images of 20th Century American…
Stamboul: The Crossroads of the World
Storytellers were calling this mysterious crossroads of Europe and The Orient the economic center of…
From Cannes to the Supreme Court… Jeanne Moreau
The more we look at French cinema the more we learn about the underground culture…
Ralph Steadman: Peat and The Turf Cutters
Cutting peat is perhaps one of the less common pursuits of ordinary folks and, I…
Drawing with Light: The Pinhole Image
Extraordinary things happen in these [pinhole photography] moments time and time again. In both stillness…
A Horse and The Lady… Fiona Campbell-Walker
Wrigley Gum heiress and horse rescuer Helen Rosburg coined the phrase, “when Wrigley women get depressed…
The French Franc… Charles Aznavour
The name Maurice Chevalier rolls across the tongue like a sip of Vintage Camus. But…
Three On A Match… Yves Montand
When Dambier captured this debonair gentleman and his entourage, the name Yves was more popular…
The Frivolous Prince… Jean Cocteau
Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the phrase “the rich are different” while hanging out with…
A Walk On The Wild Side… Capucine
Jack Nicholson and Capucine, the dazzling beauty in the Dambier photograph here, both liked Charlie Feldman’s…
Ralph Steadman’s Whisky Tax Men
Ian MacDonald I.S.O., late of the Inland Revenue and author of a classic work on…
Ralph Steadman’s Whisky-Making Lads
Men and women of gritty and brutal intensity ran amok at the turn of the…
Ralph Steadman’s Whisky-Making Ladies
Gay Gordon Fanbuggery was never told whether she was a man or a woman. The…
Ralph Steadman’s Whisky Smuggling Lads
Young Ken Inverdunk, a cooper who served the smuggling trade well. He invented the first…
Darry Cowl–French Lounge Lizard
Before the French developed a fascination for the low-brow diversion they found along the Sunset…
Eddie Barclay: The Music Man
Back in the Fifties, a young Quincy Jones was barnstorming his star studded big band…
Vanishing Sydney Harbour
Editor’s Note: At a time when most photographs are photoshopped, these are not. Read how Anthony…