Sunday Favorites - Behind the Curtains

You can keep as quiet as you like,
but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84


Ernst Haas

Black & White - Angels

put out your eyes, and touch the black skin
of an angel named imagination

E. E. Cummings



Ralph Eugene Meatyard


Warning: This post contains photographs of female nudity

Underwater (Photography)

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean

Arthur C. Clarke


Trent Parke

Black & White - Masks, Rites and Transformations III

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another

William Shakespeare.



Elliot Erwitt, Kent, England, 1968

Black & White - Shadows

To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light

C.G. Jung



Lee Friedlander, New York City, 1966

Black & White - Transportation

Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Pablo Neruda



Louis Stettner, 1958

Black & White - Doppelganger

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do
is to suppose that they are like himself

John Steinbeck



Diane Arbus, Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967

Black & White - Dogs

When the Man waked up he said,
'What is Wild Dog doing here?'
And the Woman said,
'His name is not Wild Dog any more,
but the First Friend,
because he will be our friend
for always and always and always.'

Rudyard Kipling



Elliott Erwitt,  New York City, 2000

Sunday Favorites

Childhood is the sleep of reason

Jean-Jacques Rousseau


William Eggleston, Memphis, Tennessee, 1971

Lights in the Night

… the Stars
That nature hung in Heav’n, and fill’d their Lamps
With everlasting oil, to give due light
To the misled and lonely Travailer.

Arthur Rackham

I am starting this year with a new collection - similar to the series Things with Wings - called
Lights in the Night.  Art from different times and cultures about the pleasures of exploring the
sky with its heavenly bodies as well as the urge to illuminate the dark hours between dusk
and dawn with fire and light.

Tsuki Hyakushi - 100 Aspects of the Moon

Whore and monk, we sleep
under one roof together,
moon in a field of clover

Bashu






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Black & White - Hands III

Please leave your fingerprints

Maya Deren and Marcel Duchamp, The Witch’s Cradle, 1943

Black & White - Masks, Rites and Transformations II (The artists)

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself.
That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty
one does not find as a member of society.

Man Ray



Kati Horna, Remedios Varo, wearing a mask made by Leonora Carrington, 1957

Black & White - Masks, Rites and Transformations I

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks
in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity

Friedrich Nietzsche



Irving Penn, Three Asaro Mud Men, New Guinea, 1970

Black & White - Horses

The New York that I had come back to was not my old New York. I used to wander around the streets disconsolately, until one night during a blizzard, I happened to see a man watering a couple of steaming horse-car horses, and I thought, “Well, there at any rate is the human touch.” That made me feel much better.

Alfred Stieglitz



Alfred Stieglitz, “The Terminal, New York” (1892)

Rain - Japanese Woodcuts

Not even a hat --
and cold rain falling on me?
Tut-tut! Think of that!

Matsuo Bashô



Shiro KASAMATSU, Spring Rain at Yushima Tenjin Shrine
, 1935

Black & White - The Poetry of Rain

Robert Doisneau, M. Barre’s Carousel, 1955

Black & White - Mirrors

Man is a mirror for man.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Brassaï, Juan-les-Pins, aux Folies-Bergères, 1932

The Hours of Catherine of Cleves

An artist whose name has been lost to time painted the gold-studded illuminations around 1440 in a book of prayers for Catherine of Cleves, a Dutch countess. Her court commissioned the volume of hours, or illustrated daily devotions, around the time she separated from her spendthrift husband, Arnold of Egmond, and began a futile 30-year effort to unseat him. Catherine’s illustrator is most famous for weirdly fanciful borders; he surrounded Latin text blocks with bee swarms, devils, birdcages, pearls, pea pods, burst-open mussels and fish eating one another’s tails. (source)

Detail

Black & White - Windows - Looking In, Looking Out

It’s easy enough that on a balcony / or in a window frame /
a woman pauses … to be / the one we lose / just by seeing her appear.

R.M. Rilke

Eugène Atget, Au Tambour, 1908