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Dresden was widely considered a gem of German Baroque architecture before World War II. In 1945, it lost its status when the joint British and American air strikes flattened its entire central part ...

Italian photographer Davide Sorrenti died at the age of 21. He was one of the main fashion photographers of ‘heroin chic’ that praised skin emaciated models. After Davide died those fighting against ...

Photographer Vlad Sokhin is working in Alaska, where he documents the effects of global warming. Bird In Flight publishes his diary once a week. Below is Vlad’s report from Kivalina — an island ...

Art photographer Michael Wesely films life in one frame – from photographs of flowers with a week-long exposure to a year-long architecture reconstruction. Michael Wesely’s works are more than ...

After World War 2, Polish architects decided to turn the ruined Warsaw into the best city in the world. Unlike future generations, their contemporaries did not appreciate the idea. Bird in Flight has ...

На фотографии, сделанной в 1964 году во время советских гастролей Марлен Дитрих, дива стоит на коленях перед писателем Константином ...

Military sleeve insignia can tell much more about the soldiers than their affiliation with a regiment or battalion. We have gathered some unusual insignia and found out how they came to be and what ...

A century ago a fascist party led by Benito Mussolini came into power in Italy. Mussolini ruled the country for two decades and tried to build his “Third Rome”, using the architecture of Ancient Rome ...

Режисер і оператор Валентин Васянович п'ять років знімав глядацьке кіно, але помітного успіху домігся з артхаусом. Його останній фільм ...

Berlin has been rebuilt four times over the past hundred years: first by the Nazis, then by the Allies and Soviets. The reconstruction of the city’s eastern part launched by the German authorities ...

В 2003 году американский альпинист отправился на прогулку по каньонам Юты. Но обычная вылазка на природу превратилась в 127-часовое испытание ...