
Leonard Freed :: Kate nudes (source: Magnum Photos)
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images that haunt us

Nelly’s (Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraïdari) :: Famous dancer of Opera Comique Mona Paeva dancing naked at the Acropolis
holding only a small olive strand, Athens, Greece, 1928. From the
exhibition “Dance and Antiquities. The 60 pictures featured in this exhibition have been chosen from the rich Nelly’s collection. / source: archaeology and arts
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Atelier Manassé :: ‘Masked Naked’, 1931 / src: lapetitemelancholie
Olga Spolarics and Adorja’n von Wlassics, founders and owners of the atelier from 1922 to 1938 / more [+] by Atelier Manassé

I – El río, los cambios de luz y de estación,
las casas que sugieren un pasado decoroso.
Sólo un opaco fragor
de los asuntos humanos.
Es cierto, las noches son más frías
y el tiempo se demora entre los bancos de niebla.
La ira parece innecesaria; persiste apenas
la ausencia del mar,
la impresión de vidas y de muertes que se hilvanan
a un mismo nacimiento.
II – Un plato, un vaso, una silla;
un cielo insulso y leve, blanquecino.
Pasado el verano —la vulgaridad del verano—
el invierno reduce el mundo a dos o tres
emociones esenciales. Papeles, libros,
recuerdos de palabras.
Y luego los sueños; las formas imprecisas
de claridad y dominio.
Gerardo Gambolini – Finisterre I (Text source: zoopat)
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lasmicrofisuras

Drawing from the live model has a long tradition not only in the history of art, but also the at the Museum. Dating back to 1841, BKM has provided hands-on art education by organizing drawing classes. A century later, Brooklyn Museum Art School opened as a non-degree professional school for artist. This advertising poster produced for the School in 1974 provided a humorous take on the dynamic between artists and models.
related post by Elliott Erwitt, here