Smoking hot, pre-1950
from eBay
“Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. The camera obscura. Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.”
Chuck Palahniuk
more photos @ statigram
Smoking HOT!
J. | Shot with a Nikon FM2 by istillshootfilm
Woman on the Beach, Smoking - Mary Jane Russell, Long Island, N.Y., 1949 by Irving Penn
from le clown lyrique
Carnaval!
from Au carrefour étrange
I’ve been following charmaineolivia and her work for a while now [mostly @instagram;] and these projector series are really fantastic!
Dora Maar avec un fume-cigarette, dans son salon, rue de Savoie, Paris, 1944 by Brassaï ***
[few years later, similar shot by Isis here]
from RMN
Mina Quevli, 1930 by Virna Haffer
from the Collection of the Washington State Historical Society, gift of the estate of Virna Haffer, part of a past exhibition: ‘A Turbulent Lens: The Photographic Art of Virna Haffer’ at Tacoma Art Museum [2nd July – 6th November , 2011]
courtesy of Art Blart
Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.
It satisfies no normal need. I like it.
It makes you thin, it makes you lean,
It takes the hair right off your bean
It’s the worst darn stuff I’ve ever seen.
I like it.
Graham Lee Hemminger, Tobacco
photo from LIFE
From Sean Young collection of Blade Runner polaroids
thanks to How To Be A Retronaut & La boite verte
Chargesheimer, At the Bar/Kissing Couple, Cologne, about 1956
from Museum Ludwig
for December 1956 issue of LIFE