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Ilya Milstein, The Muse’s Revenge 2019

Yuri Gagarin, the hobbyist photographer, at home with his wife.

Yuri Gagarin being identified only as an amateur photographer and not literally the first human in space has me on the floor

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This is a good reminder that there is a lot of texture and complexity to people; every human contains lots of aspects that would be completely unrelated if not for the fact that the same person experiences them. It’s easy to forget this, and compress the people you meet into a caricature; even celebrities usually end up being famous for one thing alone. But even something as glorious as the first space travel by a living human does not fully encompass a life.

This, too, is Yuri.

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65 years ago today, the Soviet Union launched this hobbyist photographer into space!

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Gotta have your daily affirmations

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Отдел Контроля | Quality Control Department;

Nikita Fedosov, 1964.

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A kawari kabuto (exotic helmet), Momoyama period, late 16th century. Photo Christie’s Image Ltd 2016.

A zunari (head-shaped) three plate iron of ‘yaro-to’ (rough fellow’s head) shape with boar’s bristle forming the hair with a tied top-knot, the mabisashi of a further plate of red-lacquered iron forming a high forehead, maedate (fore-crest) of two opposed carp of wood with gold foil, a four tier gold-lacquered Hineno shikoro (neck guard) of close red-laced itazane (plain iron sheet), single sheet iron red-lacquered reisei (fierce style) menpo (face mask) with gold-lacquered teeth, vestiges of a bristle moustache, four tier yodarekake (bib) lacquered gold and red-laced matching theshikoro