the wunderkammer archives' photostream

my photographs flickr

this is a collection of inspirations/found photos/stills/etc etc etc
if i happen to put up something that belongs to you then let me know and i'll credit/link it, or take it down if thats what you want. but some of these things i have found myself, in abandoned places/streets/my underwear etc.



"The Wunderkammer (also known as Cabinets of Wonder, or wonder-rooms, or the Cabinet of Curiousities) were encyclopedic collections of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were, in Renaissance Europe, yet to be defined. Modern science would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history (sometimes faked), geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art (including cabinet paintings) and antiquities. The Kunstkammer was regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world, and a memory theater. The Kunstkammer conveyed symbolically the patron's control of the world through its indoor, microscopic reproduction. Besides the most famous, best documented cabinets of rulers and aristocrats, members of the merchant class and early practitioners of science in Europe, formed collections that were precursors to museums."