bits&bites

" Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect." E.M.Cioran 

[monsieurr]

[billyjane]

A text about time

Long have I lain here before thee

And after thee Long shall I lie

Long Have the grasses my bones Long Have the worms my flesh Long Have I gained a thousand names Long Have I forgot my name

Long have I lain here before thee And after thee Long shall I lie

from Kameni spavač/Stone Sleeper by Mak Dizdar

translated by Francis R. Jones, 1999

this one’s for touba

[billyjane]

Vulvae,c.1850

[Artist unknown]

Shunga on wiki

[billyjane]

hiya, am kinda back?

happy pride month everyone 👯‍♂️🏳️‍🌈

[billyjane]

[so30s]

billyjane:One more from Diana Slip lingerie, probably shot by Roger Schall [this one could be from the same session]

Diana Slip, a French lingerie company from the 1930’s owned by Léon Vidal. To say that they were a “lingerie company” is actually a bit loose . To be clearer, it was more like part of a erotica-supply conglomerate that made and sold fetish wear, condoms, erotic books and photography, and established the Librarie de la Lune (which I’m assuming is a pornographic reading room, but I haven’t been able to find concrete information on that.) They also produced a series of illustrated catalogues/magazines (including Lingerie Libertines and The Paris Magazine) with excellent fine art photographers such as Brassai, Jean Moral and Roger Schall. 

photo and info from here

[adskikafeteri2]

E.O. Hoppé 1932

[so30s]

H. Wolter, Berlin cabaret performers, 1930s

[so30s]

Martin Munkacsi, [Katharine Hepburn, Hartford], 1935 from Fans in a Flashbulb

[billyjane]

[billyjane]

“To suffer is how to be active without doing anything .”

— Emil Cioran,  Cartea amăgirilor (The Book of Delusions) 

[3wings]

[billyjane]

Voile mouillé. Paris, 1937 by Erwin Blumenfeld

from 3wings

[billyjane]

RIP TUMBLR

[billyjane]

 Horace Roye, Nu aux ronces. Vers 1950

[loladupre]

48 hours in Bordeaux Paper collage on panel, 21x29.7cm

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[adskikafeteri2]

E.O. Hoppé 1932

[dictionaryofobscuresorrows]

liberosis

n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end zone—rather to hold your life loosely and playfully, like a volleyball, keeping it in the air, with only quick fleeting interventions, bouncing freely in the hands of trusted friends, always in play.

[billyjane]

To suffer is how to be active without doing anything .

Emil Cioran,  Cartea amăgirilor (The Book of Delusions) 

[billyjane]

Kálmán Szöllősy, The wave pool in Gellert Spa, around 1940