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therumpus:

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:28:29 -0400

therumpus:

marycaple: 407 Whitehead Street, Key West, Florida - Florida...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:40:39 -0400

marycaple:

407 Whitehead Street, Key West, Florida - Florida Keys Public Libraries

theparisreview: Surely it’s ridiculous maybe even...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:40:14 -0400

theparisreview:

Surely it’s ridiculous maybe even scandalous
that I feel such overpowering envy
for the eleven-year-old son who’s dozing
fallen into his mother’s arms
to enjoy his turn of pleasure
however unaware and heedless.
At my age how could I compete
with that fine hair, that brow
which pulls back all the better to surrender
to the sure power of those hands
that close him in their caresses,
not lustful caresses but undisputed
sovereignty of simple tenderness,
the true sure gesture that possesses?
There’s no cure for my envy:
what do I want, to give or to receive?
To be what I am, yet not a female daughter
but a feminine son, an absolute son,
an undifferentiated son. Mother of mine,
what went wrong, why didn’t you convince me?

—Patrizia Cavalli, from “Ten Poems” (translated from the Italian by Jonathan Galassi)
Art Credit Matt Saunders

alilnugget: Byzantine

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 17:22:19 -0400

alilnugget:

Byzantine

Powell's Books: “You know the fact that very small children make brilliant art and...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:03:14 -0400

Powell's Books: “You know the fact that very small children make brilliant art and...:

powells:

“You know the fact that very small children make brilliant art and slightly bigger children, when they get slightly bigger, they can’t do it anymore?

Yes, it’s in part because they learn: this is how you draw a tree. This is how you draw a house. This is how you draw the sun. On the one hand,…

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Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:52:32 -0400

blastedheath: Sybil Andrews: Jesus falls the first time:...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:54:46 -0400

blastedheath:

Sybil Andrews: Jesus falls the first time: Station III, 1962

hangoversquare: Chavez with RFK

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:05:19 -0400

hangoversquare:

Chavez with RFK

thetacostand: via retro_futurism

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:51:33 -0400

thetacostand:

via retro_futurism

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Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:19:46 -0400

centuriespast: Studio portrait of delegate Ahahe, a Wichita...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:39:37 -0400

centuriespast:

Studio portrait of delegate Ahahe, a Wichita woman, seated and holding a baby in cradleboard covered with checkered textile. Photographed at the U.S. Indian Congress of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, 1898.

Frank A. Rinehart, Non-Indian, ca. 1862-ca. 1928, or Adolph F. Muhr, Non-Indian, ca. 1858-1913

National Museum of the American Indian

awesomepeoplereading: James Dean reads. theniftyfifties: James...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:32:32 -0400

awesomepeoplereading:

James Dean reads.

theniftyfifties:

James Dean photographed by Richard C. Miller.

retronewyork: W Broadway & Broome Street, SOHO, New York....

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:11:26 -0400

retronewyork:

W Broadway & Broome Street, SOHO, New York. 1976 by Eugene Gannon on Flickr.

oldloves: River Phoenix & Martha Plimpton at a ‘Rock...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:13:17 -0400

oldloves:

River Phoenix & Martha Plimpton at a ‘Rock Against Fur’ benefit, 1989

dustulator: Saskia de Brauw in The Nearness of You shot by...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:12:10 -0400

dustulator:

Saskia de Brauw in The Nearness of You shot by Vincent van de Wijngaard for Muse magazine no.33 Spring 2013

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Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:34:09 -0400

theparisreview: A Woody Guthrie notebook page, Coney Island,...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:20:51 -0400

theparisreview:

A Woody Guthrie notebook page, Coney Island, 1947. Guthrie had drawn and painted for nearly as long as he’d been writing and singing songs, a kind of lifelong visual diary. His works are full of freewheeling, hot-blooded, irreverent wit and big-hearted intelligence. As the man himself suggested, nobody could illustrate Guthrie better than Guthrie.

From issue 177, Summer 2006.

retronewyork: Third Avenue Elevated Railway-1950’s American...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:12:31 -0400

retronewyork:

Third Avenue Elevated Railway-1950’s American Trains in New York City

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Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:17:38 -0400

specialnights: The Move 9 1985. Philadelphia city police...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:18:06 -0400

specialnights:

The Move 9

1985. Philadelphia city police dropped a bomb on this block (Osage Avenue) and let it burn. Five children and six adults, members of a small radical collective called MOVE, died; 61 homes in a middle-class neighborhood were destroyed. As the nation watched, Philadelphia became the city that bombed its own people.

The firefighters were stopped from putting out the fires based on allegations that firefighters were being shot at, a claim that was contested by the lone adult survivor Ramona Africa, who says that the firefighters had earlier battered the house with two deluge pumps when there was no fire. Police shot at those trying to escape the house and acknowledge firing over 10,000 rounds.