Jan Sterling in Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951) / via mudwerks
Tag: quotation
Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a German instructor of sculpture and a self-taught photographer, who used his photographs of plant studies to educate his students about design elements in nature.
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“The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.” source: TEG
Oskar Schlemmer holding a mask, 1930
‘My themes – the human figure in space, its moving and stationary functions, sitting, lying, walking, standing – are as simple as they are universally valid,’ he once said of his work. ‘They are inexhaustible’
With the rise of the Nazis in the early 30′s, Schlemmer was edged out of a teaching post in Berlin. His work was included in the infamous exhibition of ‘degenerate art’ in 1937. He then worked in secret in a factory in Wuppertal until his death in 1943
Dorothea Lange atop automobile in California, 1936. The car is a 1933 Ford Model C, 4 door Wagon. The camera is a Graflex 5×7 Series D.
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Lizbeth Scott and Raymond Burr in Pitfall (Andre De Toth, 1948)
“She probably doesn’t appeal to you, but for me she’s just what I told the doctor to order.” / via
wehadfacesthen / source: IMDb
John Loengard :: T.S. Eliot, 1956 (for Life Magazine (?) / via
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We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. (T. S. Eliot )
Como asqueada
de este mundo,
se va la mariposa.Instantes. Nueva antología del haiku japonés
Ed. Hiperión, 2009
Edición de José María Bermejo
Steve Schapiro :: Samuel Beckett Looking at Parrot, New York, 1964
“You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.” Samuel Beckett
/ src: Le Curieux Monsieur Cocosse
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Wang Nigde :: Unknown title, 2009 / src: Le curieux Monsieur Cocosse
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two-
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
Langston Hughes, Tired, 1931-41
“I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
gif from La Chute de la maison Usher (Jean Epstein, 1928) / via
un regard oblique 