...like a girl

Laura McPhee: writer, photographer, traveler, dreamer, doodler, brooder, collector of books & other pretty things. Here you'll find images mostly by others, mostly black & white, mostly 20th century. *Every effort has been made to provide proper credit on the images posted. If you find an error, or if you are the owner of an image and wish to have it removed, please don't hesitate to contact me via the ask button located below. Please do not remove photographer and/or source information when reblogging. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-33400074-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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Three women looking at map, Paris, 1978 (William Gedney)

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Women on an Italian street, 1951 (Milton Greene) via ralfbayer

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“I wouldn’t be the person I am, I wouldn’t understand what I understand, were it not for certain books … A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world.” —Susan Sontag, born on this day in 1933.

via theparisreview  (Read her Art of Fiction interview here)

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Autoportrait avec Sophie, 1954 (Edouard Boubat) via stars-et-shooting

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Marie Laurencin, Paris, c1926 (Berenice Abbott)

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The Eyes Have It: Jean Harlow via mudwerks:

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Glare. 1963 (Yale Joel) via fewthistle

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Françoise Hardy et Sylvie Vartan, Paris, 1963 (Roger Kasparian)

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Marianne Faithfull avenue Montaigne, Paris, 1963 (Roger Kasparian)

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Gallery Woman, 1958 (Louise Dahl-Wolfe)

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Chapeau Barthet, Paris, c1957 (Regina Relang)

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Diahann Carroll & Sidney Poitier, Paris Blues, 1961

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"The Supremes (left to right, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson and DIana Ross) pose with their cameras as they arrive at London Airport," Oct. 5, 1965

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Coretta Scott King, c1967 (Arnold Michaelis)

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Dr. King's Wife to Speak Here, March 4, 1964

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Princess Anne and Prince Charles, 1956 (Lord Snowdon)

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Two Girls With Shadow, 2004, Hans Peter Feldmann

Great essay on Feldmann here