We are accidents

[coolkidsofhistory]

Jazz great Thelonious Monk performing at the Newport Jazz Festival,  1974.

[d-untrait]

Picasso

[zzzze]

Nobuyoshi Araki, THUMB

[blue-voids]

Bruno Perramant - Love Story No. 4, 2005 - oil on canvas

[sam-haskins]

Zulu maiden. Photo: Sam Haskins from ‘African Image’ 1967

[trash-fuckyou]

POSSESSION, 1981

[harpy]

Detail of Pietà de Nouans, 1460 Jean Fouquet

[ducissatenebrarum]

Detail from Francisco de Zurbarán, San Luis Beltrán, ca. 1663.

[habitantes-oazj]

PH - Tazio Secchiaroli.

“Blow Up” (Blowup) 1966.  

David Hemmings as Thomas. 

Veruschka von Lehndorff as herself. 

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. 

Cinematography: Carlo Di Palma. 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

[habitantes-oazj]

PH - Meg Dreyer - Istanbul

[imagediver]

Click on the image to see the detail in a zoomable context.

Detail from The Divine Eros Defeats the Earthly Eros, Giovanni Baglione, about 1602

[habitantes-oazj]

PH - Pierre Choumoff - Six studies of Rodin’s Sculptures. 1915 

[arcadiainteriorana]

Afternoon Light John Francis Murphy (American, 1853–1921) Oil on canvas, 1887. Private Collection.

[ukpuru]

Mask Ugwu Eke village, Alayi (Isu Item Igbo). G. I. Jones.

[sacredarch]

[internationalemeteorologie]

Ohara Koson 

Egret Standing in Rain. 1928, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 39.3 x 26.3 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, US

[irisharchaeology]

Chi-rho page from the Book of St Chad, which dates from circa AD 730. It contains some of the earliest evidence of the Welsh language in written form