ghazala ghaziloky

[jogastills]

Sonatine (1993)

Takeshi Kitano

[retroarab]

The Dupes (1972) المخدوعون 

 Based on Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun.

[womansart]

Layla Al-Attar (May 7, 1944 - June 27, 1993) was an Iraqi artist and painter who became the Director of the Iraqi National Art Museum. Through her art, al-Attar expressed feminist ideals that attempted to recognize the role of women in all spheres of society.

On 27 June 1993, Al-Attar, her husband and their housekeeper were killed by a U.S. missile attack on Iraqi Intelligence main building which was just behind her house, ordered by U.S. President Bill Clinton. The building was hit by 24 rockets. Two misfired and hit their house accidentally, per her son’s testimony. The attack also blinded Al-Attar’s daughter. There are some rumours the misfire was intended due to a previous unflattering mosaic of President George H. W. Bush laid onto the floor at the entrance to the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad. Additionally, some allege that al-Attar used pieces of her destroyed home during the American bombings in 1991 to create this controversial mosaic. The idea was that nobody would be able to get into the hotel, where most foreign visitors to Iraq stayed in the 1990s, without stepping on Bush’s face. The mosaic was removed when Baghdad was captured on 9 April 2003. Her death met with an angry response in Baghdad.

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‘X-Ray’ by Helmut Newton, 1995.

[ozu-teapot]

Happy Birthday Takeshi Kitano! Born today January 18th, 1947

[velvetmysoul]

[ummalmaa]

Helmut Newton

[begavet]

[ummalmaa]

UMM AL MAA

[modernbaghdad]

Unknown Soldier Monument under construction, architect Rifat Chadirji, Baghdad, c1959

نصب الجندي المجهول تحت التنفيذ، المعماري رفعت الجادرجي، بغداد، ١٩٥٩

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The Hamood Villa in Baghdad, Iraq by Rifat Chadirji in 1992. The building is a vaulted pale brick residence. The arches are typical of Chardirji’s work in the area.

[ummalmaa]

remembering you today

[crumbargento]

Raging Hell Fires - Masaru Konuma - 1977 - Japan

[palantesiemprepalante]

[teenagedirtstache]

[stylingup]

[stylingup]

Ellen von Unwerth

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marina schiano, after being one of diana vreeland’s favorite models of the late sixties, she transformed in the seventies into yves saint laurent’s alter ego in america helping him with public relations and famously organizing the decadent launch of his perfume ‘opium' in new york.

she then moved on to vanity fair where as creative style director, under tina brown, she made all those celebrities of the eighties appear more glamorous than they actually were, with a little help from helmut newton.

her last incarnation as a jewelry designer brought to the social new york scene the oversize rings.

“tinsy, wintsy, weeny, wimpy, weensy jewelry-ugh! women think discreet jewelry is elegant. it is not. and all it shows is an horrible lack of daring.”

[sweetestart]

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