The Rückenfigur

A modest ongoing collection exploring a visual trope (occasionally updated) by Kelsey Halliday Johnson. Scavenging popular visual culture, art history, film, contemporary art, photography, advertising, and everything in between. //Please visit my main internet sweetheart over at softpyramids.info//

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Matthew Spiegelman Fourth Dimension from the series officioné

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The Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men (still)

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Michelangelo Pistoletto Standing Man 1962 silkscreen on steel

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Vilhelm Hammershoi Interior 1899

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Werner Herzog/Timothy Treadwell Grizzly Man (still)

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Peter Doig Lunker (from Grasshopper) 1997 etching

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Terrence Malick's To The Wonder  A highly romantic film filled with plenty of traditional romantic imagery like the ruckenfigur trope.

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Norman Rockwell Looking out to sea 1927

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Jean-Louis Forain The Tub 1886-7 oil painting

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Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #48 1979

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Music video for Bon Iver- "Holocene" Director/photographer - Nabil Elderkin

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Sigurdur Gudmundsson Horizontal Thoughts 1970

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Gordon Douglas Them!  (still) 1954 93min, black and white

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Andrei Tarkovsky still from The Mirror 1975 107 minutes 

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Edvard Munch Two Human Beings, The Lonely Ones  1899

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Justine Kurland  Heroic Cave Portrait 2008 c-print18" x 23.5"

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Jocelyn Lee Untitled (Fiona in water) 2008 pigment print