#la mort

[bizarreauhavre]

Memento Mori, 19th century, marble.

[charnel-grounds]

Richard Laillier, “Arcane XIII — L’Arcane sans nom”

black chalk on a cardboard, 2018

[derangedrhythms]

Charles Baudelaire, Complete Poems; 'La Mort' from 'The Death of the Poor', tr. Walter Martin

[hybridalex17]

"Nicky, but he's a villain" =D

[notadeathinthefamily]

DEATH AND STATUES

During the war, in October 1941, the pro-Nazi Vichy government decreed that statues "without artistic or historical importance" could be torn to pieces by the Germans in order to reuse the metal.

In December, the photographer Pierre Jahan, taking considerable risks, photographed them, piled up in a courtyard in Paris, in the 12th arrondissement, ready to leave for the foundries.

Jean Cocteau was so enthusiastic about those photographs that he decided to publish them in a book, writing the text himself.

Just over a hundred pages, the illustrated volume was published at the end of the war, in 1946, and republished several times. It is one of the most beautiful, saddest and most engaging photographic books ever made, just look at the photos of the dying alligators or the discouragement of the young orphan of the other statues of his family. I don't think it has ever been published in other countries. It can be found online at decent prices. There is also a first edition with a dedication by Cocteau for 1,200 euros.

[badgirlphilologist]

I wonder what happens if la mort from Romeo et Juliette and der Tod from Elisabeth das Musical kiss. Will they both be dead? Will they fuse? Will the world explode? Or will nothing happen, and they'll... just kiss?

[knightousama]

first meeting

[metor-money]

la mort

*想念小梁姐中。。。