With your little claws

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[lascitasdelashoras]

Charles Baudelaire, 29 ans, daguerréotype, 1850

[petaltexturedskies]

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Susan Sontag, On Photography (originally published in 1977)

[thunderstruck9]

Erik Bulatov (Russian, 1933-2025), Black Tunnel, 1964. Oil on canvas, 99 x 98.5 cm.

[miamaimania]

Untitled photograph ⌘ A hand waves unexpectedly from a manhole on a city street.

[mournfulroses]

Marcel Proust, from a story featured in "The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust," originally published in 2001

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[thefugitivesaint]

Hélène Guertik (1897-1937), ''Album Fée'' by Père Castor, 1933

[nobrashfestivity]

Enrico Prampolini, Il Perfido Incanto, 1916

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[mythologyofblue]

Studio P. Delbo, Le papillon de tulle, Paris, 1930

[devodyana]

[odetopictorialism]

Gisèle Freund • Self Portrait, 1938

[nemfrog]

Molten. Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited. Annual Report. 1979.

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[oilpalette]

Rainy Night With Yellow Umbrella, 2025 by Dr. Michelle Cox (Australian); Gouache on paper

[undinesea]

Let me fearlessly descend into the remotest caverns of my own mind—carry the torch of self-knowledge into its dimmest recesses—

Mary Shelley, from The Journals of Mary Shelley by Professor Paula R. Feldman

[urgetocreate]

John Michael Carter (American b,1950), Summer Reading, 1986, Oil on linen

[sovietpostcards]

"Do Not Self Medicate". Soviet poster by V. Intoyo, 1977.

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