Post Modern Life Is Rubbish

Champagne Socialist. Coping with love in a cold climate

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Lee Miller

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Paris 1944

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1946 First In The Field. Southern Railway. Getting into its stride again!

Source: www.flickr.com / kitchener.lord

Published at: https://digitalpostermuseum.com/railroad/southern-railway-poster-and-ad-collection/

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1946 First in The Field. Southern Railway. Getting into its stride again!

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Santa Fe Railroad ad The Chief Way (1951). Artwork by Bern Hill (1911-1977). - source Lynn Hulit.

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Greta Garbo in Flesh and the Devil (1926)

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Donna Tartt

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Poppies, Stanley Spencer

Oil on Canvas, 1938

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Ghosts of Vimy Ridge, Will Longstaff

Oil on Canvas, 1931

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This is the rainy season. I am sorrowful in November. The kettle is whistling. I must butter the toast. And give it jam too. My kitchen is a heart. I must feed it oxygen once in a while

Anne Sexton, from "Hurry Up Please It's Time" in The Complete Poems

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Lanesville, 1958, Saul Leiter

Photograph, 1958

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““Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.””

— Brian Eno

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Bryan Ferry at home, Holland Park, London, 1976.

In his Our Man in Havana period. He was living with Jerry Hall at the time.

—Mick Rock, 2001

Photo by Mick Rock.

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It could happen to anybody...

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“David Hockney taught us: Better juxtaposed than matched.”

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Cultural Revolution

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Forbidden Colours