The Rose Arcana

music/cinema/fashion/art/vintage inspired transmutations of the Rose

[mudwerks]

(via Punk: Nothing to Lose In the 1970s - Flashbak)

Ari-up of The Slits in her Silver Jubilee knickers, Brighton, 15 June 1977

The Clash

Nothing to lose: The punk photographs of Caroline Coon

[mrspacino]

Bebe Daniels, 20s

[mrspacino]

Theda Bara, 1910s

[mrspacino]

Jean Harlow, 1930s

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold ring set with mouse amulet, Egypt, from the reign of Thutmose III, 1479-1425 BC

from The MET

[fysugardoll]

[slack-wise]

Arielle Burgelin

[slack-wise]

Arielle Burgelin

[7thstranger]

Danny Lyons, Zipco, Elkhorn, Wisconsin 1966

from Danny Lyons book ‘The Bikeriders’ (1968)

[imperfectdiary]

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photo booth, Forty-second Street, 1970

[dark-longings]

Pola Negri. The Way of Lost Souls, 1929.

[inneroptics]

Claude Cahun

[venusimleder]

Vogue Russia, December 1999.

Ph. Ellen von Unwerth

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

The Damned

The Russell Club, Hulme, Manchester (1979-08-28)

© Harry Goodwin

[jareckiworld]

Arthur Köpcke (1928-1977) — "Otherwise: You Are a Spectator, Only" [mixed media on masonite board, 1964]

[reglacinco]

Gaye Advert of The Adverts with Dave Vanian of The Damned, 1977

[valentinovamp]

Ewa Aulin (1960s)