Posts tagged "RIP"
  1. Notes: 374 / 1 year ago  from liquidnight
    "Stuff your eyes with wonder … live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
    - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451  from liquidnight
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  2. Notes: 381 / 1 year ago  from proustitute
    "Tonight I think
    no poetry
    will serve"
    -

    Adrienne Rich, from “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve”

     from proustitute

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  3. Notes: 137 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Nude, n.d. by Lillian Bassman *

    Nude, n.d. by Lillian Bassman *

     
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  4. Notes: 152 / 1 year ago 
    Barbara Mullen, New York. Harper’s Bazaar, circa 1950 Farewell Lillian Bassman [June 15, 1917 - February 13, 2012] You will be missed. [more of her work here]

    Barbara Mullen, New York. Harper’s Bazaar, circa 1950

    Farewell Lillian Bassman [June 15, 1917 - February 13, 2012] You will be missed.

    [more of her work here]

     
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  5. Notes: 13 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Lillian Bassman, Fashion and Fine-Art Photographer, Dies at 94
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  6. Notes: 328 / 1 year ago  from proustitute
    "When it comes, you’ll be dreaming
    that you don’t need to breathe;
    that breathless silence is
    the music of the dark
    and it’s part of the rhythm
    to vanish like a spark."
    -

    Wislawa Szymborska, from “I’m Working on the World” in Poems New and Collected, trans. S. Baranczak and C. Cavanagh

    thanks to proustitute

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  7. Notes: 83 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    La Décadence, 1970 by Sibylle Ruppert [ 1942-2011]  courtesy of HR Giger Museum & wurzeltod [also @  Feuilleton and MonsterBrains]

    La Décadence, 1970 by Sibylle Ruppert [ 1942-2011] 

    courtesy of HR Giger Museum & wurzeltod [also @  Feuilleton and MonsterBrains]

     
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  8. Notes: 75 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    RIP Leonora Carrington [April 6, 1917 – May 25, 2011] Collage portrait from 1987 by Kati Horna

    RIP Leonora Carrington [April 6, 1917 – May 25, 2011]

    Collage portrait from 1987 by Kati Horna

     
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  9. Notes: 31 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    From The Mylar Chamber series, late 60s RIP Ira Cohen [ February 3, 1935 – April 25, 2011] with thanks to 50 watts [more @ Phantomly Oracula, Guardian & Culture24]

    From The Mylar Chamber series, late 60s

    RIP Ira Cohen [ February 3, 1935 – April 25, 2011]

    with thanks to 50 watts [more @ Phantomly Oracula, Guardian & Culture24]

     
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  10. Notes: 64 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Anita Berber, the 29 year old dancer, actress and ‘wild-child’ of the Weimar cabaret era, died on this day in 1928. She was buried in a paupers grave in St. Thomas Friedhof in the Neukoln district of Berlin. The cemetery is now disused and her grave, gone. ” Only thrill-seeking transvestite couples from the Eldorado nightclub, some sombre journalists and intellectuals in top hats, a couple of film directors, the German sexolologist Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, and immediate relatives from the Berber clan attended. Henri Chatin-Hoffman…. and his latest dance partner watched from afar. The intimate and bohemian ceremony that was planned had to be curtailed due to a nonstop rainfall” The Seven Addictions and Five Professions  of Anita Berber – Mel Gordon from Cabaret Berlin [more Anita] photo could be by Madame D’Ora [see this one] confirmed by frenchtwist,thanks;]

    Anita Berber, the 29 year old dancer, actress and ‘wild-child’ of the Weimar cabaret era, died on this day in 1928. She was buried in a paupers grave in St. Thomas Friedhof in the Neukoln district of Berlin. The cemetery is now disused and her grave, gone.

    ” Only thrill-seeking transvestite couples from the Eldorado nightclub, some sombre journalists and intellectuals in top hats, a couple of film directors, the German sexolologist Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, and immediate relatives from the Berber clan attended. Henri Chatin-Hoffman…. and his latest dance partner watched from afar. The intimate and bohemian ceremony that was planned had to be curtailed due to a nonstop rainfall”

    The Seven Addictions and Five Professions  of Anita Berber – Mel Gordon

    from Cabaret Berlin [more Anita]

    photo could be by Madame D’Ora [see this one]

    confirmed by frenchtwist,thanks;]

     
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  11. Notes: 222 / 2 years ago  from liquidnight (originally from nevver)
    What?How?Why?! RIP.you will be missed….. liquidnight:I’m stunned. What a tragic loss…RIP. News via nevver:Dead at 31, Chris Al-Aswad (Escape into Life & The Blog of Innocence)

    What?How?Why?!

    RIP.you will be missed…..

    liquidnight:I’m stunned. What a tragic loss…RIP.

    News via nevver:Dead at 31, Chris Al-Aswad (Escape into Life & The Blog of Innocence)

     
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  12. Notes: 27 / 3 years ago  from i12bent
    Paul Eluard wrote a poem in homage to Man Ray: The storm of a robe which fallsThen a simple body without cloudsSo come and tell me all your charmsYou who have had your share of happinessAnd who often bewails the dismal fate of the one who made you so happyYou who have no desire to reasonYou who knew not how to create a manWithout loving another In the ebb and flow of a body which undressesAkin to the breast of twilightThe eye forms in line on the neglected dunesWhere the fountains hold naked hands within their clawsVestiges of bare forehead pale cheeks beneath the eyelashes of the horizonA rocket-like tear betrothed to the pastTo know that light was fertileChildish swallows mistake the earth for the sky The dark room where the stones of cold are bareDo not say you have no fearYour look is level with my shoulderYou are too lovely to preach chastity In the dark room where even the wheatis born of greediness Remain unmovingAnd you are alone ******* Photo by Man Ray of Eluard, Nusch and friends… it’s a beautiful poem and photo too,thanks i12bent

    Paul Eluard wrote a poem in homage to Man Ray:

    The storm of a robe which falls
    Then a simple body without clouds
    So come and tell me all your charms
    You who have had your share of happiness
    And who often bewails the dismal fate of the one who made you so happy
    You who have no desire to reason
    You who knew not how to create a man
    Without loving another

    In the ebb and flow of a body which undresses
    Akin to the breast of twilight
    The eye forms in line on the neglected dunes
    Where the fountains hold naked hands within their claws
    Vestiges of bare forehead pale cheeks beneath the eyelashes of the horizon
    A rocket-like tear betrothed to the past
    To know that light was fertile
    Childish swallows mistake the earth for the sky

    The dark room where the stones of cold are bare
    Do not say you have no fear
    Your look is level with my shoulder
    You are too lovely to preach chastity

    In the dark room where even the wheat
    is born of greediness

    Remain unmoving
    And you are alone

    *******

    Photo by Man Ray of Eluard, Nusch and friends…

    it’s a beautiful poem and photo too,thanks i12bent

     
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  13. Notes: 44 / 3 years ago  from i12bent
    i12bent: By a strange coincidence Marcel Proust, Paul Eluard and Man Ray all died on November 18 - albeit in different years… Man Ray of course famously photographed Proust on his death bed, 1922 - above: “Ravaged by bronchitis and pneumonia, Marcel Proust spent the last night of his life dictating manuscript changes for a section of his famous novel Remembrance of Things Past. Man Ray did not know Proust, but he had become such an important photographer that mutual friends dispatched him to the celebrated French author’s bedside to make a final portrait two days after his death. The side view associates Man Ray’s photograph with a tradition of postmortem photography dating back to the inception of the medium.” (Source - The Getty)

    i12bent: By a strange coincidence Marcel Proust, Paul Eluard and Man Ray all died on November 18 - albeit in different years…

    Man Ray of course famously photographed Proust on his death bed, 1922 - above:

    “Ravaged by bronchitis and pneumonia, Marcel Proust spent the last night of his life dictating manuscript changes for a section of his famous novel Remembrance of Things Past.

    Man Ray did not know Proust, but he had become such an important photographer that mutual friends dispatched him to the celebrated French author’s bedside to make a final portrait two days after his death. The side view associates Man Ray’s photograph with a tradition of postmortem photography dating back to the inception of the medium.” (Source - The Getty)

     
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