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Jummah Mubarak 🌻 • Wazir Khan Mosque. Lahore, Pakistan. (Instagram: aabbiidd)

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Felix Vallotton

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… let me make a general observation — the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up” (1936)

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Karl Blossfeldt :: Bryonia alba (White bryony, with leaf) B, 1920′s. Pinakothek der Moderne, München / src: Michael Hoppen Gallery

“From 1898-1932, Blossfeldt taught sculpture based on natural plant forms at the Royal School of the Museum of Decorative Arts (now the Hochschule für Bildende Künste) in Berlin. In his lifetime Blossfeldt’s work gained praise and support from critics such as Walter Benjamin, artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Realism) and the Paris Surrealists. The words of Walter Benjamin repositioned the artist in modern art and photography and prior to publishing his photographic book in 1926, Blossfeldt was sent an invitation to exhibit his work at the Karl Nierendorf’s gallery.”

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