Visual Culture Brown Bag

Ellery Foutch, A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for the Humanities and the Department of Art History, UW-Madison. More than 100 years before the invention of iPods and iPads, bodybuilder Eugen Sandow designed a portable entertainment device. The apparatus included “a frame or screen combined with a projecting lantern which may be easily carried on a man’s shoulders.”