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Hicham Benohoud from his series "The Classroom" 1994 and 2002

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The Painted Garden of the Villa of Livia.  

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Colourful paint pigments preserved in their original pots.

Antiquarium of Pompeii 

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Michael Dweck, Mermaid 2, 2006 https://www.instagram.com/p/DQUp7mXAsmh/

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“I’m very attached to this film,not only because of my own personal experience making it, but also because I met Kieslowski and all the other people on the shoot, and also because of certain viewers’ reactions. They’d tell me “This film meant a lot to me I’ve seen it two or three times”. I realised this film took some viewers on a very personal journey, just like it took me.”

Irène Jacob on La double vie de Véronique (1990) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski

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James Henkel

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Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour, 1967

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Christopher Wilson dancer with Alvin Ailey II photographed by Melika Dez

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Photo by Félix Thiollier, ca. 1899.

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Rita Hayworth poses as Whistler’s Mother for Look Magazine feature Stars in roles they’d like to play. The photography was taken by Earl Theisen in 1945.

When Rita Hayworth, the Hollywood actress, was asked by Look magazine how she would cast herself, she chose Whistler’s Mother. Consequently, the article features a picture of Hayworth assuming the same pose but with her legs in full view, with the picture on the wall displaying her lying on a bed clothed in a two-piece bathing suit. The article explains that « Rita Hayworth, a mother herself, longs to portrait Whistler’s Mother with emphasis on the whistle ». The whistlers, of course, are men, who are likely to be less interested in the fact that she is a mother than that she is an attractive woman, The allusion to the male habit of whistling at an alluring woman (a far cry from the woman in the original portrait) brings us back, full-cicle, to the humorous connotations of the painter’s name. At Home in the World: A Study in Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Art - Donald Capps

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Russia, Norilsk by Christophe Jacrot

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Large Framed Papercuts by Peter Callesen