Woman on the Beach, Smoking - Mary Jane Russell, Long Island, N.Y., 1949 by Irving Penn
from le clown lyrique
flash/back
IP @ ANBB [Alva Noto & Blixa Bargeld] live @ Resonate festival
Belgrade, 15th-16th March 2012
taken with Olympus µ[mju:]-III [one from my flickr]
Lindsay Seers, I saw the light, 2005
“She is engrossed by the conceptual and philosophical questions raised by the medium that relate to truth, imagination, memory and history.
(…) as a child she could not speak. This silence was possibly caused by a condition called eidetic memory (photographic memory). Seers first spoke at the age of eight when she saw a photograph of herself, asking: ‘Is that me?’ Her eidetic memory faded with the onset of language. This traumatic loss of her memory led her to ‘become’ a camera; she started forming images by inserting pieces of light-sensitive paper into her mouth and using her lips as the aperture and shutter. This passive process of ‘ingesting’ the world occupied her for many years, she gave up her life as a camera to ‘become’ a projector emitting images in an act of extramission.”
Nicolas Bourriaud on Lindsay Seers @Tate
Can you believe that this is early Bill Brandt ?
also published in Beauté magazine, August 1935
one more from Au carrefour étrange
Another one from very intriguing 1930s album of mr. Juan Crisostomo Mendez Avalos
haven’t had a queering moment for a while:] Juan Crisostomo Mendez Avalos
thanks to Deborah Hammond
[few more @ frenchtwist]
Undressing woman (Germany 1940) by L. Junghans, Dresden
from Servatius
Here you are - One, 1975 by Paul de Nooyer
Lucien Hervé - born Lászlo Elkán, Deux silhouettes derrière un verre dépoli,1939
Eva Fuková / Eva Fuka, Dívka s květinou / Girl with a flower, 1957
from greisen