"beauty will save the world."

[sentimental-obsessions]

[embarrassinglovesong]

Sleeping swan

[jinxproof]

Dries Van Noten F/W 2002 © Yelena Yemchuk

[banksalec]

[dustandfools]

Between us and heaven or hell is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees 

[foodieforfashion]

[roseinsolence-deactivated201810]

[emfile]

[orwell]

“Erotica”, photographed by Melanie + Ramon for Vogue Ukraine.

[barcarole]

Ad Reinhardt painting at the Museum of Modern Art, 1964. Photos by Burt Glinn.

[lamignonette]

[disc80s]

paolo_abate

[newyorker]

For decades, the photographer Vivian Maier supported herself as a nanny in the wealthy enclaves of Chicago. But her real work was roaming the streets with her camera, capturing images of sublime spontaneity, wit, and compositional savvy. When pressed about her occupation by a man she once knew, she said, “I am sort of a spy.” All the best street photographers are.

Read the full story, “What Vivian Maier Saw in Color,” here. 

[dustandfools]

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[trulyvincent]

Poppies. John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925)

[dustandfools]

A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it-- by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Susan Sontag, On Photography

[eatkate]

[heavenly-daze]

Kate Moss and André 3000