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unknown american maker, studio portraits, circa 1940s — ‘50s.

“These photographs from the 1940s and 1950s,” brings together surviving studio portraits of uniformed soldiers, parents with their children, and fashionable individuals, all of which capture a defining era of the African-American experience in the South and the Midwest.”

Alina Cohen, of Artsy Editorials.

#photographer unknown #photography

waiting to exhale ‘95, directed by forest whitaker.

#waiting to exhale #wesley snipes #angela basset #film

miami, photographed by alex webb 1989.

#alex webb #miami #1989

tijuana, baja california, photographed by alex webb 1999

#alex webb #tijuana #baja california #1999

I have long despised artists’ chatter about muses, voices that speak to them and enable a vision; the source of which they could not otherwise name. I thought of muses as inventions to protect one’s insight, to avoid questions like, ‘where do your ideas come from?’ or to escape inquiry, into the fuzzy area between autobiography and fiction. I regarded the mystery of creativity as a shield, erected by artists to avoid articulating, analyzing, or even knowing the details of their creative process, for fear it would fade away.

Toni Morrison’s interlude on writing Song of Solomon

#toni morrison #song of solomon #t