[retrogirly]

A man drinking with his cat on a rooftop, New York City in 1953. Photo by Hy Rothman.

[julytrees]

Donyale Luna captured by Luigi Cazzaniga on the beach during the 1970s.

[miamaimania]

“Cows Up High” ~ Maharashtra, India ◆ They know where the ridge goes; we don’t

[achillesinhighheels]

Saul Leiter, “Moonstruck”, Manhattan, New York, 1957.

[From the series “In My Room”]

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[petaltexturedskies]

My body needs it—the hot baths, the care, the soft water, the perfume, the warmth. I take on the colors of the flowers, the bloom, the delicacy. It becomes me.

Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diaries of Anaïs Nin 1939-1947

[achillesinhighheels]

Sade for Cosmopolitan [1985]

[paintingses]

Bouguereau + Fruits, flowers, foliage, etc…

[mona-l1sa]

[whoknowswherethetimegoes]

Nina Simone performs live on stage at Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, United States on 4th July 1968. Photographed by David Redfern.

[monster2001]

Hop Nguyen

[achillesinhighheels]

Eartha Kitt photographed by Carl Van Vechten on October 19, 1952.

[henk-heijmans]

Magic of water, Kobe, Japan, 1951 - by Koji Takashima (1937), Japanese

[nobrashfestivity]

Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese, 1866–1942) 神坂 雪佳 Meiji period (1868-1912) Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Puppies (Enokoro) 1909 Kamisaka Sekka made preparatory drawings for his Flowers of a Hundred Worlds series on tracing paper with ink and color. The freehand sketches are much looser than the finished, printed compositions. ink and color on paper

[lamignonette]

[22iw]

[dreamstars]