Mannequin in a store window, New York, c. 2002 by Francois Dupuy
from Verdeau
Master of stroboscopic photography:Gjon Mili
Multiple exposure stroboscopic image of legs & feet of actress/dancer Betty Bruce as she does a fast tap routine in Broadway show “High Kickers”,1941
original caption from LIFE
Happy Birthday Paul Delvaux * ![September 23, 1897 – July 20, 1994]
Ecce Homo, 1949
from Ben Tolman Likes Art
[thanks for the reminder Asha ;]
Clochards dormant sur un quai - Paris - n.d
From Andre Kertesz’s Paris at Saint-Sulpice
Illustration for the ballet Salome in The Russian Ballet by A. E. Johnson;
by René Bull,1913.
via feuilleton
[from Crossett Library]
“I Would Call Aloud Upon Her Name”
E.A.Poe’s Ligeia illustrated by Harry Clarke
old fave from A Journey Round My Skull
Gustave Doré ‘s illustration to Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, Inferno Canto 21.
[inner sleeve of “The Devil:Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity” by Jeffrey Burton Russell, Zenit, Belgrade,1982]
Alraune by Hanns Heinz Elvers,1929, Illustrated by Mahlon Blaine
[I’ve seen this on various blogs before but never knew where it really comes from;]
Jana by Ben Tolman,2006-07
amazing find of the day: Paul Klee in Dessau
Ono no Komachi (c. 825—c. 900) was a famous Japanese waka poet, one of the Rokkasen—the Six best Waka poets of the early Heian period. She was noted as a rare beauty; Komachi is a symbol of a beautiful woman in Japan. She is also numbered as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
artist unknown,found in LIFE archives
A Journey Round My Skull: Ex Libris Mr. Reaper
edit: by Josef Farago [karaart.com]