crooked-circumstances:

victorian house

bu tim walker

cavetocanvas:

Edmund Dulac, illustration for The Garden of Paradise

cavetocanvas:

Edmund Dulac, illustration from The Little Mermaid

cavetocanvas:

Edgar Degas, The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, 1874

museumuesum:

Walead Beshty

Six Color Curl (CMMYYC): Irvine, California, July 18, 2008, Fuji Crystal Archive Type C, 2008

Color photogram, unframed: 90 3/4 x 50 in. (230.5 x 127 cm)

life:

A contact sheet of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s pictures of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, August 1952.

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loquaciousconnoisseur:

George Romney

Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante

waltdisneywithblood:

Contact sheet with photos of Marilyn Monroe by Philippe Halsman for Life magazine. 1952.

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museumuesum:

AUGUST SANDER

Small Country Band, c. 1913

gelatin silver print

museumuesum:

Walker Evans

License Photo Studio, New York, 1934

Gelatin silver print

7 3/16 x 6 in. (18.3 x 15.2 cm)

This photograph displays Walker Evans’ increasingly assured ability to construct meaning out of the juxtaposition of pictorial elements. Here they extend from the hands pointing to the doorway, to the crazy quilt of signs papered across the building’s facade, to graffiti scrawled among the signs. Many of Evans’ most sophisticated photographs from the period have a rebuslike quality, disclosing previously unnoticed connections in the world. Evans was drawn to the decaying quarters of New York during the Depression—especially to buildings along the waterfront and the Bowery that exhibited, like Paul Strand’s blind peddler (33.43.334), a “battered nobility.”