Author: un regard oblique

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wolfson-stuart:

La masturbación es una antología sexual, una selección de los mejores coitos (…) es económica porque no hay que invitar a comer a nadie, ni aguantar a los parientes de nadie, ni entender a nadie, ni compartir la cama con nadie, ni andar prometiendo pendejadas a nadie, la masturbación es una declaración silvestre de independencia.

Facundo Cabral

Fot. Isa Marcelli

(vía Wolfson Stuart: Independencia)

Source: wolfsonstuart.blogspot.com

Admiring a print, ca. 1910

Eva Watson-Schütze :: Woman Admiring a Print, ca. 1910. Bromoil print. | src V&A museum
Eva Watson-Schütze :: Woman Admiring a Print, ca. 1910. Bromoil print. | src V&A museum

The image shows a woman in full length, wearing a long dress and standing at a table in profile against a blank pale wall, holding the edges of a print which is resting on the table. Bright light from a window in the top left of the photograph lights the front of the woman and the tabletop.

This is an example of the bromoil process invented around 1907, in which a bleached image is re-developed with pigment applied with brushes. ‘Pictorialist’ photographers favoured its broad tonal effects and diffuse detail. The print being ‘admired’ in the image is likely to have been a finely crafted photograph much like this one. [Gallery 100, ‘History of photography’, 2012-2013]

quoted from V&A Museum