Shalini Sharma in a collage made by Guy Maddin’s talented set designer / art director Galen Johnson for his ” Spiritismes ” shooting project at the Pompidou Center , Paris , 2012.
with thanks to Jeanne Madic
read more about her work with Maddin at her marvelous Vanishing Twins
Quite surreal illustration of “death and the maiden” theme [see also skull girls]
from Uramado, Japan’s most remarkable SM magazine, 1958-1964
thanks to foxesinbreeches & Les Rétro-Galeries de Mr Gutsy
Elle aimait trop le bal, c’est ce qui l ‘a tuée.. [Victor Hugo, Fantômes]
Waltz of Death by Gustave Adolf Mossa, 1906
Watercolor and black chalk
from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
thanks to ubu507
fantastic Jacques Roubille illustration of Les Fleurs du Mal
thanks to aucarrefouretrange & les-retrogaleries-de-gutsy
more illustrations at lesretrogaleriesdemistergutsy and some more Baudelaire here
Claudia Böhm , Leda 1991 [also]
Exhibition: ‘Light Sensitive: Photo Art from the Collection’ at Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau [12th May – 12th August 2012]
from Art Blart
French actress Michele Morgan swinging in swing, 1941 by Peter Stackpole *
for LIFE
Belgrade, probably taken at Sava quay c.1950s
Paul Éluard or W. B. Yeats (attribution unknown)
from proustitute