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“you’re so sweet!” thank you i have abandonment issues

latinamericainphotos

Plaza Bolívar, Bogotá, Colombia.

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atraversso

Secrets Of The Space by Andy Ermolli

plasticblisss

Fantastic Mr. Fox, (2009) dir.Wes Anderson

philamuseum

Chance encounters with neighbors passing on the street, on their way to church or going about daily routines. Dox Thrash celebrated the strength and beauty of African Americans at a time when most of the world did not. Born in rural Georgia, Thrash left as a teenager and traveled north looking for work. He held various jobs, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, was injured by a gas attack in World War I, was denied work at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and came to thrive as an artist with support from the Works Progress Administration. In 1937, he developed an innovative printmaking technique known today as carborundum mezzotint. Thrash originally called it the “Opheliagraph” after his late mother. Using this process, he was able to capture stunning, sensitive portraits in a broad tonal range that demonstrated the complexities found in everyday black life.

“Mary Lou (or Marylou),” c. 1939–40, by Dox Thrash

“Second Thought (My Neighbor),” c. 1939, by Dox Thrash

“Sunday Morning,” c. 1939, by Dox Thrash

“Grinding (or Grinder),” c. 1940, by Dox Thrash

“Saturday Night,” c. 1942–45, by Dox Thrash

“Charlie,” c. 1941, by Dox Thrash

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This artwork hella icy❄️

theoceanbre-eze

anothercleverjedimindtrick

Wrap your thighs around my head and let me find out what you taste like

nyhistory

Hidden, or disappearing, fore-edge painting is a technique that dates back to the mid 17th century, when London bookbinders began decorating not the flat edge of a text block, but rather the gently fanned edge. Doing so caused the image to appear and vanish depending on how the pages were held. In some cases, as with the views of Boston and Philadelphia above, two different scenes were painted on either side of the fore-edge, so that only the gilt edge is visible until the pages are fanned in one direction or the other.

There’s more about these fore-edge paintings on the From the Stacks blog!

Fore-edge painting of York Cathedral. Thomas and Katharine Macquoid. About Yorkshire. 1894. New-York Historical Society.

Double fore-edge painting of oval views of Hull and Olney, with decorative surrounds. John Scott. The Life of the Rev. Thomas Scott, Rector of Aston Sandford, Bucks. 1836. New-York Historical Society.

Double-fore edge paintings of Boston and Philadelphia. Washington Irving. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1864. New-York Historical Society.

Fore-edge painting of Eton from Windsor Castle. Thomas Gray. Poems and Letters. 1867. New-York Historical Society.