[20thcenturystarlet]

Girl photographed by Hugh Magnum c. 1909

Magnum’s photographs are notable for their informality, which was unusual for the period. I just adore the series of this girl, she’s such a beauty.

[frangiponi]

nail.nuha

[worldscoolest]

Stockings from 1910

[overwelmd]

annie cecille iversen

[rrondo]

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Sam Shaw in Amagansett, New York, 1957.

[apoemaday]

here rests

by Lucille Clifton

my sister Josephine born july in '29 and dead these 15 years who carried a book on every stroll.

when daddy was dying she left the streets and moved back home to tend him.

her pimp came too her Diamond Dick and they would take turns reading

a bible aloud through the house. when you poem this and you will she would say remember the Book of Job.

happy birthday and hope to you Josephine one of the easts most wanted.

may heaven be filled with literate men may they bed you with respect.

[warmfigure]

still can’t stop staring at this arrangement i made

apricot beauty foxglove, scabiosa and orlaya

[odetopictorialism]

Julien Gérardin • Femme au jardin en fleurs, Jarville, 1910

[warmfigure]

strawberry galette

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by George Barris in Santa Monica, July 1962.

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[apocryphics]

Walt Hunter

[apocryphics]

Willa Cather, in a letter to Zoë Akins, November 21, 1932

[apocryphics]

[the-dauphine]

“The most precious thing is vitality – not in any sinister Lawrentian sense, but just the will + energy + appetite to do what one wants to do + not to be ‘sunk’ by disappointments. Aristotle is right: happiness is not to be aimed at; it is a by-product of activity aimed at.”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947—1963  (via sartreuse)

[trial-of-gilles-de-rais]

1946 Portraits at Howard University