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24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen
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When we hear the names of writers, we usually think of their work first and not of the people who wrote them. But it doesn't change the fact that these authors existed and had full-blown lives that impacted their work. And so, sometimes it can be very interesting to think about who the people were deep down who wrote the famous books or other texts.
Threads like this one shared on X let us catch at least a small glimpse into that. After all, seeing an uncommon photo of a writer can make a reader grasp their work in a light they might not have been able to before.
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#1
J.R.R Tolkien In His Study With His Own Hand-Drawn Map Of Middle Earth
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#2
Mark Twain With A Cat
#3
Franz Kafka With His Dog
#4
Portrait Of Edgar Allan Poe, Believed To Be The Earliest Known Photograph Of Him
#5
A Daguerreotype Of A Young Frederick Douglass
#6
Rare Portrait Of Virginia Woolf
#7
Oscar Wilde Attending A Garden Party
Beak Hookage 2 years ago
The biopic sucked but casting Stephen Fry was absolutely perfect. The resemblance is bang on.
#8
Rare Daguerreotype Of Charles Dickens
WindySwede 2 years ago
YT: How was it made? The Daguerreotype | V&A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAPgdo5H7ZY
#9
Alexander Solzhenitsyn On The Day Of His Liberation After 8 Years In The Gulag
#10
Ernest Hemingway With His Chauffeur Adamo Simon
#11
C. S. Lewis With A Pipe
#12
The Only Color Picture Of Leo Tolstoy
#13
46-Year-Old Charles Darwin
#14
The The First Known Picture Of Friedrich Nietzsche
#15
Last Photo Of Fyodor Dostoevsky While Alive
#16
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois At Age 4
#17
A Rare Portrait Of F. Scott Fitzgerald
#18
Portrait Of A Young Sigmund Freud
#19
Rare Picture Of John Steinbeck
#20
Jorge Luis Borges Poses With Bread Basket On His Head
#21
Albert Camus Dancing
sofacushionfort 2 years ago
“There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide,” So let’s all dance!
#22
Portrait Of Karl Marx
sofacushionfort 2 years ago
He specifically wanted that drape in the photo. It’s made of dialectical material
#23
Anna Julia Cooper Graduating
#24
Young Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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What do you think ?
Frances Pitchoune 2 years ago
Why does the poll suggest Orwell's choice? I didn't see his photo there ?? 😕 ??
Moosy Girl 2 years ago
What I learned from this is daguerreotypes are friggin’ awesome, they look much more real than most photos.
Bettye McKee 2 years ago
Developed in 1848, photographs taken with glass plate negatives are so clear in detail they are amazing. Only problem was the plates were so fragile, they had to be carefully stored and protected to survive for posterity, The history of photography is astounding.
Load More Replies... Frances Pitchoune 2 years ago
Why does the poll suggest Orwell's choice? I didn't see his photo there ?? 😕 ??
Moosy Girl 2 years ago
What I learned from this is daguerreotypes are friggin’ awesome, they look much more real than most photos.
Bettye McKee 2 years ago
Developed in 1848, photographs taken with glass plate negatives are so clear in detail they are amazing. Only problem was the plates were so fragile, they had to be carefully stored and protected to survive for posterity, The history of photography is astounding.
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