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Ken Rosenthal

1) Untitled #TIF-54-11/12, from the series A Dream Half Remembered, c2006.

2) Untitled #1207-2, from the series Not Dark Yet, 2002.

3) Untitled #29-1, from the series Seen and Not Seen, 2001

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    • #Ken Rosenthal
    • #Photography
    • #Contemporary
    • #Bunny
    • #Trees
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Mark Arbeit
 Dive, 1989.
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Mark Arbeit

Dive, 1989.

    • #Mark Arbeit
    • #Photography
    • #Abstract
    • #Nude
    • #1980s
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Gerard Lange 

1) Sophia, 2002.

2) White Peacock, 2002.

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    • #Photography
    • #Contemporary
    • #Portrait
    • #Peacock
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George Holz

1) Kendra’s Pond, Maine, 1990.


2) Stalactite Study #1, Phoenicia, 2002.

… via the Meter Gallery

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    • #George Holz
    • #Photography
    • #Contemporary
    • #Nude
    • #Stalactite
    • #1990s
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Manuel Álvarez Bravo
The Mouths / Las boca, c1963.
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Manuel Álvarez Bravo

The Mouths / Las boca, c1963.

… via Nick Lloyd

    • #Manuel Alvarez Bravo
    • #Photography
    • #1960s
    • #Mexico
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Alvin Booth

Anamorphosis

2008-2009

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    • #Photography
    • #Contemporary
    • #Nude
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Portrait of Lady Diana Cooper by Fred G. Curson, c1923.
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Portrait of Lady Diana Cooper by Fred G. Curson, c1923.

… via the NPG

    • #Lady Diana Cooper
    • #Fred G. Curson
    • #Portrait
    • #1920s
    • #Crown
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Katka Prackova

1) Female Figure
2) Upside Down

… from the Portfolio Dark in Light, Light in Dark, c2006.

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    • #Photography
    • #Contemporary
    • #Nude
    • #Chiaroscuro
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Robert Mapplethorpe

Lisa Lyon, 1982.

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    • #Robert Mapplethorpe
    • #Lisa Lyon
    • #Photography
    • #Nude
    • #Fire
    • #Chiaroscuro
    • #1980s
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Cang Xin - Great Wall, Communication Series no. 4, 2000.
Cang Xin is a bona fide shaman; he holds the profound belief that all things have spirit – both animate and inanimate objects – and is a member of an order of enlightened holy men who have the ability to enter various forms at will. As one of China’s most celebrated performance artists, Cang approaches his work as a means to promote harmonious communication with nature. His works have included bathing with lizards, adorning the clothing of strangers, and prostrating himself on icy glaciers: each act representing a ritual of becoming the other. Cang’s Communication is an ongoing piece, begun in 1996. Engaging with the world at large with his tongue – one of the most intimate and sensitive parts of the body – Cang’s performance represents an internalising of knowledge and a religious communion with place/person/thing. Sites for this performance have included the Great Wall of China, Tiananmen Square, and The Coliseum. 

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Cang Xin - Great Wall, Communication Series no. 4, 2000.


Cang Xin is a bona fide shaman; he holds the profound belief that all things have spirit – both animate and inanimate objects – and is a member of an order of enlightened holy men who have the ability to enter various forms at will. As one of China’s most celebrated performance artists, Cang approaches his work as a means to promote harmonious communication with nature. His works have included bathing with lizards, adorning the clothing of strangers, and prostrating himself on icy glaciers: each act representing a ritual of becoming the other.

Cang’s Communication is an ongoing piece, begun in 1996. Engaging with the world at large with his tongue – one of the most intimate and sensitive parts of the body – Cang’s performance represents an internalising of knowledge and a religious communion with place/person/thing. Sites for this performance have included the Great Wall of China, Tiananmen Square, and The Coliseum.

… photo via Wird - photo

    • #Cang Xin
    • #Performance Art
    • #Photography
    • #Great Wall of China
    • #China
    • #Contemporary
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Mario Crevo Neto - Nina, 1980.
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Mario Crevo Neto - Nina, 1980.

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Lady Diana Cooper by Sir Cecil Beaton, 1930.
… today’s nun brought to you by the National Portrait Gallery
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Lady Diana Cooper by Sir Cecil Beaton, 1930.

… today’s nun brought to you by the National Portrait Gallery

    • #Cecil Beaton
    • #Sir Cecil Beaton
    • #Lady Diana Cooper
    • #Viscountess Norwich
    • #Nun
    • #Sunday Nun
    • #Photography
    • #1930s
    • #Bromide Print
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Shadi Ghadirian
My Press Photo #2, 1999.
… As for the collages that comprise My Press Photos, they combine images drawn from press-agency catalogues with old portraits of Iranian military men. Across time and space, war’s violence sadly reminds us of its universal, essentially male, dimension.  (re-title.com)
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Shadi Ghadirian

My Press Photo #2, 1999.

… As for the collages that comprise My Press Photos, they combine images drawn from press-agency catalogues with old portraits of Iranian military men. Across time and space, war’s violence sadly reminds us of its universal, essentially male, dimension. (re-title.com)

    • #Shadi Ghadirian
    • #Photography
    • #Iran
    • #Contemporary
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Alphaville

1965

Auteur: Jean-Luc Godard

Cinematography: Raoul Coutard

Starring: Anna Karina, Eddie Constantine, …

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    • #Alphaville
    • #Anna Karina
    • #Jean-Luc Godard
    • #Raoul Coutard
    • #Out of Print
    • #What are you doing Criterion?
    • #Film
    • #1960s
    • #Eddie Constantine
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Jacques Henri Lartigue 

1) Rene Cap d’Antibes, 1930-1932.

2) Renee Perle, c1930.

… via Phillips & Dovima is Devine II

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    • #Can't recall seeing these before
    • #Historical Crush
    • #Renee Perle
    • #Muse
    • #Jacques Henri Lartigue
    • #Photography
    • #Big Pants
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