Happiness...

Emily.21. Painting, music and photography

[yama-bato]

Yasuhiro Ishimoto, “Untitled,” from the “Chicago, Chicago series,” 1959–61

[darkandlong]

[joeinct]

Garrapata Beach, Photo by Brett Weston, 1954

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B25s flying past erupting Mt. Vesuvius, Italy, 1944

Source: http://i.imgur.com/BGuc0n8.jpg

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[newendy]

[kvetchlandia]

Uncredited Photographer     Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Aspen, Colorado     1970

There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It’s a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix — a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing… And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get…

–Hunter S. Thompson, “Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ‘80s” 1988

[christopherbarnard]

Amanda recording, 1970 

[reedrolling]

The queen of China town

[kvetchlandia]

Frank Horvat     Couple, quai du Louvre, Paris     1955

[kvetchlandia]

Frank Horvat     Working Prostitutes, Bois de Boulogne, Paris     1956

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[acuratedlife]

[newendy]

[kvetchlandia]

Saul Leiter     New York City     Undated

[kvetchlandia]

Saul Leiter     Self-portrait     1942

“I didn’t photograph people as an example of New York urban something or other. I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities.” Saul Leiter

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