Ephemorata

*ephemera + inamorata* illustration, moss, photos, books, reliquaria, wunderkammern, ruins, astronomy, dogs, shadows, mirrors, anatomy, woodcuts, body, color, fingerprints, fragments, watermarks, beehives, static, queerness, foxes, sparks, bones

[starlightacademia]

— Marina Tsvetaeva

[colorhollywood]

Lauren Bacall

[pwlanier]

Quiet hour.

Author: Khaldei E.A.

Size: 60х50

Technique: Print from the author's negative.

Sovcom

[diana-andraste]

Headless Man, NYC, Diane Arbus, 1962

[charnel-grounds]

Fritz Czuczka (1893–1967), “Traum” (Dream)

from ‘Die Muskete’ Vol. 36 #6, February 20, 1923

source

[thingsfromthedirt]

ca. 1930

[vintagelasvegas]

Last Frontier Village and Silver Slipper, December 1958

Neon sign points to Ripley's Believe It or Not. Faded slide scan, VLV Collection.

New Frontier, Dec. 1958

Silver Slipper by day, Dec. 1958.

Desert Inn, Dec. 1958. "Newcomers of '28" - Rudy Vallee, Buster Keaton, and others.

[1264doghouse]

James Son Thomas, Leland, Mississippi

[huariqueje]

Still Life with Foxgloves and Ferns , Digitalis - Martha Darley Mutrie

British , 1824-1885

Oil on canvas , 102 x 85 cm.

[manyother]

1967. Raquel Welch in "The Oldest Profession" is a internationally co-produced comedy film.

[easternblocrelics]

Praha, Czechoslovakia Color negative 1980s

[shisasan]

Darling, I like solitude, that’s what I like — 

27 July, 1927 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

[hawks-alphonse]

[vv-itchy]

[gothredy]

by Barbara Regina Dietzsch

[portalibis]

Crucified creature with the symbols of the four a head, a robe full of eyes, and claws for hands.

Liturgical miscellany, german/latin, c. 1506. Munich, BSB, Clm 19822, fol. 30r

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[metmuseum]

Design for one section of a ceiling painted with trees and lattices. second half 19th century. Credit line: Dodge Fund, 1967 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/388229