Wisława Szymborska in Olejnica, summer 1985
/ source: wysokieobcasy.pl
Tag: writer
Sylvia Plath with typewriter in Yorkshire, September 1956. Unknown photographer, probably by Ted or Olwyn Hughes.
/ via lushlight
Sandra Lousada :: British Writer Richard Hughes (Richard Arthur Warren Hughes), 1961, gelatin silver print. / src: NPG
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 1909 / src: vintage-spirit
American poetess Anne Sexton (Anne Gray Harvey), probably 1940′s / via
“Give me a report on the condition of my soul.
Give me a complete statement of my actions.
Hand me a jack-in-the-pulpit and let me listen in.
Put me in the stirrups and bring a tour group through.
Number my sins on the grocery list and let me buy.
Did I make you go insane?” excerpt from the poem Anna Who Was Mad
Partial view with frame of a picture of
Poetess Bella Akhmadulina, Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina, as a young girl in 1944 / via las microfisuras
related post, here
Poetess Bella Akhmadulina, Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina, First Class Student, 1944 (she was born in 1937, so the date is right, but the picture looks like 1910′s) / sources: ekogradmoscow.ru and chelib.ru
Portraits of Mayakovsky
Abram Shterenberg probably was the first photographer who took portraits of Mayakovsky (ca. 1923). Rodchenko used his portraits for the photomontages for “Pro Eto” (About This), the love poem Mayakovsky wrote for his muse Lili Brik.
un regard oblique 