natalie reiss

Writer of songs, wearer of rings, drinker of coffee, collector of kings. But only because it rhymes.

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Some people spend their whole life searching for what I found in his eyes.

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Ca. late 17th - early 18th century gold posy ring.

Inscribed interior reads: TREW LOVE IS MY DESYRE.

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Beginners (2010)

“Here. Here is simple and happy. That’s what I meant to give you”.

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Robert Mapplethorpe | Orchid, 1985

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Remembering what it felt to be held and kissed by friends and strangers.

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I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

David Lynch, Lost Highway. (Faber & Faber, March 1, 1997) (via The Vale of Soul-Making)

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Mercedes with driftwood arm overhead; Provincetown, MA        Author/Creator:    Matter, Herbert, 1907-1984

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/herbert-matter/browse

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Famed opera singer, and mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry (1967)

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My Random photos 2020 - Jumy-M Thank you all my tumblr friends and followers. I wish you a happy and healthy New Year!

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The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)

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Christian Lacroix Duchesse Satin dress photographed by Irving Penn, Paris, 1996.

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Close Fit Naomi Campbell by Herb Ritts Vogue April 1989.

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“[W]hat does the sentence “If you eat this fruit you will die” mean for Eve who is in a place where there is no death?”

– Hélène Cixous, Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kakfa, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva (via lachantefleurie)

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Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward in The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

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Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz

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American Girl in Italy, 1951. Image: Ruth Orkin