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Shower titilation - 1920’s. Via les-sources-du-nil

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That’s a creepy cosmetic child, right there: “Carmen” photographed by Aura Rosenberg from her series Who Am I? What Am I? Where Am I? (with Mike Kelley) via untilasinglesolitonsurvives

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“Seated Girl Facing Front” a watercolor portrait by the great Egon Schiele via hotellambert

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Auguste Rodin in his Atelier 1905 Gertrude Käsebier (via Artistas & bartleby-company)

Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934) was one of the most influential American photographers of the early 20th century. She was known for her evocative images of motherhood, her powerful portraits of Native Americans and her promotion of photography as a career for women.

odiprofanumvulgus:

Walker Evans

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free-parking:

Francis Alÿs, Nightwatch, 2004.  

Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the National Portrait Gallery at night.

my now favoritest thing. finally a fox with some *taste*!

A glimpse of the first photographic self-portrait by Robert Cornelius from 1839. Via fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

In 1839, a year after the first photo containing a human being was made, photography pioneer Robert Cornelius made the first ever portrait of a human being.

On a sunny day in October, Robert Cornelius set up his camera in the back of his father’s gas lamp-importing business on Chestnut Street in Center City, Philadelphia. After removing the lens cap, he sprinted into the frame, where he sat for more than a minute before covering up the lens. The picture he produced that day was the first photographic self-portrait. It is also widely considered the first successful photographic portrait of a human being.

[…] the words written on the back of the self-portrait, in Cornelius’ own hand, said it all: “The first light Picture ever taken. 1839.” 

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Another long-necked lovely lady, “Kim Grant” image by Ian Ruhter using the wet plate collodion process in Los Angeles, 6.10.02010. I blogged about Ian and his work here.

A fantastic 1924 photograph by Man Ray of Peggy Guggenheim wearing a Paul Poiret dress via whataboutbobbed

Great photograph of Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet) from the ‘Safe As Milk’ photo session (from Mojo magazine, March 2010). More Beefheart on Mojo. via goo22

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A street art portrait brilliantly chiseled out of a brick and plaster wall in Venice, CA via soulpancake & homnick (Instagram)

artmagnifique:

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Portrait de Mateu Fernandez de Soto, 1901.

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