The Thrill Of It All

Eyes Wide Shut Unseen Power of the Picket Fence The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of Another Jigger Of Rye New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Art, Sculpture, Photography, Illustration, Film, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s

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 "Cross section of the White Star Steamship Titanic, now almost ready to be launched", 1910

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Court of Tenement House, 72nd Street & First Avenue, Manhattan, 1936, Berenice Abbott

"At the time of the 1879 Tenement House Act, which first regulated the city's low-income housing, Mayor Edward Cooper invited a group of prominent businessmen to form the Improved Dwelling Association. The Association invested $300,000 in the first model tenement and by law was limited to a five percent return on its investment.

"Constructed in 1882, the tenement was laid out along the perimeter of First and Second Avenues and 71st and 72nd Streets, with an open courtyard in the center, admitting light and air. Fifty years later, Abbott documented this space as a communal laundry line: ropes with pulleys led from apartments to five-story poles imbedded in concrete.

"Abbott made two exposures, with the laundry and poles forming different abstract configurations. She later recalled that winter day, the laundry frozen stiff and the children huddled together, too cold to move (McQuaid, 375).

"In the 1960s, the tenement was replaced with one of the Upper East Side's many full-block, white-brick apartment buildings."

(more) -- Museum of the City of New York

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Damnation, 1988, Bela Tarr

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Illustration by Manolo Prieto

found here: http://galeriadimatges-galderich-leblansky.blogspot.fr/2011_12_01_archive.html

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Remorques (Jean Gremillon, 1941). Artist: Henry Monnici.

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Everything is nothing, with a twist, Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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'The scaly dinosaurs of reaction will say in their newspapers that I am a Communist...Those in the current plot against liberty would drive all social virtues underground by calling its simplest expression communism...I believe I owe the very profit I make to the people I make it from...The extension of this moral argument insists that no man owns anything outright...A wedding never bought a wife. And  the devotion of his child is no man’s for the mere begetting. We must each day earn what we own. A healthy man owes to the sick all that he can do for them. An educated man owes to the ignorant all that he can do for them. A free man owes to the world’s slaves all that he can do for them. And what is to be done is more, much more, than good works, Christmas baskets, bonuses and tips and bread and circuses...The people know well that peace is harder won than war. Soon we shall hear much favoring the sort of statesmanship which is termed “realistic.”...No, giving the world back to its inhabitants is too big a job for the merely practical; too brave a task for pessimism. The architects of an enduring peace must be capable of hope. They must believe in people—all the people. They must face the unimaginable vistas of man’s destiny...'

- from Moral Undebtedness, Orson Welles, Free World, October, 1943

via Wellesnet

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Humphrey Bogart, 1941, publicity shot for High Sierra

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One Hundred Famous Views of Edo - #30. The Plum Orchard In Kameido

1856-1858

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Phantoms of Venice, Salvador Dalì, 1951

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Airplane & Railroad Station, Three Street Levels, Antonio Sant'elia

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Joseph Cornell l'Egypte De Mlle Cleo De Merode, 1940

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Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, 1914, Giorgio de Chirico

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This is the salvation they bring 1938 John Heartfield.