Black Things

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Viktor Vasnetsov Sirin and Alkonost The Birds of Joy and Sorrow

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Mlle Evrard (via Réunion des musées nationaux)

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Marlene Dietrich in Morocco (USA 1930, dir. Josef von Sternberg)

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Riddarfjärden, Stockholm, 1898, Eugène Jansson. Swedish, (1862 - 1915)

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Leonard Freed. Winter at the Vatican, Rome, 1958.

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Bebe Daniels, Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Florence Vidor, Lois Moran, Louise Brooks, Pola Negri

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Hair envy.

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Lina Basquette, well known dancer and musical comedy star, rehearsing new steps for an upcoming production 

on a ledge of the roof of the Hotel Commodore, twenty-eight stories above 42nd Street, New York c. 1926.

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5th Avenue, After the Blizzard. NYC, 1948.

Andreas Feininger

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© Andreas Feininger, 1952, S.S. United States sailing in New York harbor

Andreas Feininger, the son of painter Lyonel Feininger, trained to be an architect and became a particularly thoughtful photographer. To flatten the perspective in cityscapes, he constructed special camera bodies and tripods for use with very long lenses. With them, he accurately rendered the relative scale of the objects he photographed. (+)

“In 1952 I took a picture of the ocean liner United States in front of Manhattan because I felt putting these two achievements together gives you a fantastic look at the achievements of man. Man has built this enormous city and this enormous ship. I don’t know whether you noticed that there are tiny people lining the bridge of the ship. They are clear, but very small. To think that people, no bigger than these, have constructed and built that enormous ship. That is almost unbelievable.” (Andreas Feininger; from the book “LIFE Photographers: What They Saw”)

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Girls exploring rock pools - Cameron Bay by State Library of Victoria Collections on Flickr.

ca. 1909

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Postcards from the “business” 16

Here’s an original, still operable “Enigma” machine, designed by the western alliance to decrypt Signals intelligence during WWII

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i'd date your blog.

I think our blogs would make beautiful babies.