Tuesday, 30 January 2018

Kafka


Photograph: Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."  Franz Kafka

Monday, 29 January 2018

Bowie & Burroughs


British singer, songwriter and actor David Bowie posing for a photograph with American novelist William Burroughs for an interview published in Rolling Stone magazine in February 28, 1974.
Photograph: Terry O’Neill

Sunday, 28 January 2018

Santiago Chile


An activist dressed as a nun is taken into custody by police officers after she and other protesters had placed a pro-abortion banner above a road near Pope Francis’s expected route, before the pontiff’s arrival in Santiago.  Posted Sat 20 Jan, 2018. (theGuardian)

Photograph: Victor R Caivano/AP.

Saturday, 27 January 2018

Ollas Per Persson

Ollas Per Persson, (Born in 1866)
Photo: Einar Erici - 1935

Ollas Per Persson
Almo, Dalarna, Sweden
Photo: Einar Erici - ca.1930

Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Tuesday, 23 January 2018

Saturday, 20 January 2018

Arthur Miller

American playwright Arthur Miller
in his New York study in 1959
Photograph: Associated Press


Lee J. Cobb as Willy and Mildred Dunnock as Linda in the original production
(Fred Fehl Theater Collection, Harry Ransom Center)

Thursday, 18 January 2018

Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani in his studio, ca.1915
Photograph: Paul Guillaume

Man in a Hat, 1915
by Amedeo Modigliani
Oil on canvas

Wednesday, 17 January 2018

Miss Mattie Minetree

Miss Mattie Minetree
in Washington, D.C. ca.1892.
5 x 7 in. glass plate negative
(Library of Congress)

Monday, 15 January 2018

Jane Morris

Jane Morris, posed by Rossetti. 1865
Photograph: John R Parsons
Albumen print


The families of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, photographed by Frederick Hollyer in the garden at The Grange, Burne-Jones's home in Fulham. Left to right: Edward Jones (Burne-Jones's father), Margaret Burne-Jones, Edward Burne-Jones, Philip Burne-Jones, Georgiana Burne-Jones,
May Morris, William Morris, Jane Morris, and Jenny Morris.

Platinotype photograph, 1874.

Sunday, 14 January 2018

Rossetti

The Day Dream
Oil on canvas

Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Photo: Lewis Carroll - 7 October, 1863
Albumen print

Saturday, 13 January 2018

Reclining Figures

Large Four Piece Reclining Figure
Bronze - Executed in 1972-73

River God, ca.1526/7

Clay, earth, sand, plant and vegetable fibre, and
casein model built around an iron wire core.
Later interventions: plaster & iron mesh.