Robert Nichols

Ide Collar 1922 • Paul Outerbridge

Gisèle Prassinos reading her poems. Jean-Mario Prassinos, Henri Parisot, Benjamin Péret, René Char, André Breton, Paul Éluard 1935 • Man Ray

Slow Monday youtu.be/9R1vOdO0Gwk?... 1910 • Stone's Cottage

William H. Davies

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store. William H. Gass, Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation

Charles Baudelaire (?) • Félix Nadar

Rudolf Steiner at work on his Representative of Humanity sculpture. 1919 • Otto Rietmann

Alfred Stieglitz and Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe 1944 • Ansel Adams

Samedi soir. Jean-Pierre Léaud in La Maman et la Putain, Jean Eustache (1973)

Goodnight. Self Portrait with Gorilla Mask, Shoji Ueda, 1975

Lord Byron on Italian (@BretVDB) 1818 • Beppo: A Venetian Story

Charles and Ray Eames 'pinned' by chair bases 1947 • Eames Office

Godiva and the Gossips 1931 • Margaret Watkins

Take a Kodak with you 1920s • Eastman Kodak Company

Good morning!

Happy Birthday to Maurice Ravel! (1875 – 1937) "The only love affair I have ever had was with music." "I think and I feel in music" "I don’t ask my music to be interpreted, only to be played"

I had that dream again

Archaic treatments for epilepsy in Scotland - drinking blood extracted from own foot, from an old grave-robbed skull. - drinking well water from a suicide's skull for a fortnight at dawn and dusk. - drinking the water that a corpse has been washed with.

Charles Simic

Marcello Mastroianni Divorce Italian Style 1961 • Pietro Germi

Paul Eluard

Happy Friday!

Dracula's Daughter 1936 🎬

Dennis Hopper on the set of Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola, 1979 © Mary Ellen Mark Marie Ruiz-Vidal @RuizVidal7

Henry King

The Ghoul 1933 🖤🎬

The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities ~Gilles Deleuze

Skating - Paris, France. Eric Kim

Bret van den Brink: Dante, Purgatorio XXVII (translated by Mark Musa):

Self Portrait While Buried 2021 • Jenny Calivas

Alex Stevens, Jonathan Frid, David Henesy, Kathryn Leigh Scott 1966/1971 • Dark Shadows

Kitty Bath Time

Temptation of Saint Anthony 1934/35 • Brassaï

John Wilmot

“When you want to see something clearly, do not shine too much light on it, do not exile all the shadows from its surface. Our duty—when faced with a true mystery—is not to explain it but to deepen it, to transform it into a greater mystery.” -- Lucian Blaga

Esther Bubley

Sasha and Amy East Hampton, New York (NYC17504) 1981 • Elliott Erwitt

Monument to D. A. F. de Sade 1933 • Man Ray

Marlon Brando The Godfather 1972 • Steve Schapiro

“He saw the sea of waves, long dark waves rising and falling, dark under the moonless night.” — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

«No one has ever written or painted, sculpted or modeled, built or invented, if not to escape the depths of their own hell.» Antonin Artaud by Man Ray, 1925.

Robert Ashton (b. 1950) "Biosphere 9", 2020 #photography #surrealism #trees #RobertAshton #Ashton

‘It has been written, since the beginning of time, even unto these ancient stones, that evil, supernatural beings exist in a world of darkness.’ — 'Night of the Demon' (1957) In the film, Dr. John Holden (Dana Andrews) visits Stonehenge, and realizes that he faces an ancient evil. #WyrdWednesday

James Merrill

September 1939 • Punch or The London Charivari

Remington Silent 1940 • Lee Miller

"The world is turning into a cave just like Plato's: everyone looking at images and believing that they are reality" - Jose Saramago