dressed as the cue ball and 8 ball,1886
“The world is a looking glass, and gives back
to every man the reflection of his own face.”
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848
Alphabetarion # Looking glass | William Makepeace Thackeray, 1848
J[A-Z]Z / p1ck ( King Size! | André Previn's Trio Jazz, 1959
Cover, Design: Robert Guidi
André Previn's Trio Jazz, Low And Inside, 1959
Recorded at Contemporary Records Studio in Los Angeles, California
on November 26, 1958
André Previn - piano
Red Mitchell - bass
Frankie Capp - drums
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Alphabetarion # Longings | Susan Sontag, 1964-80
Fabienne Nuyteens-Perin, Library, 2021
“My library is an archive of longings.”
Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh:
Journals and Notebooks, 1964-80
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Silence | Langston Hughes, 1941
Casper Sejersen for Dazed & Confused
I catch the pattern
Of your silence
Before you speak
I do not need
To hear a word.
In your silence
Every tone I seek
Is heard.
Langston Hughes, 1941
Isadora Duncan | Drawings by Abraham Walkowitz, 1908-1920
Abraham Walkowitz, Isadora Duncan, 1910 Abraham Walkowitz, Isadora Duncan #29, 1915
“She was a Muse. She had no laws. She did not dance according to the rules.
Abraham Walkowitz, 1958
“She was a Muse. She had no laws. She did not dance according to the rules.
She created. Her body was music. It was a body electric, like Walt Whitman.
His body electrics..."
Abraham Walkowitz, 1958
Abraham Walkowitz, Isadora Duncan, 1910
“Walkowitz, you have written my biography
in lines without words.”
Isadora Duncan, 1916
Abraham Walkowitz, Isadora Duncan, 1910
"...there are those who convert the body into a luminous
fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul."
Isadora Duncan, 1920
Abraham Walkowitz, Isadora Duncan, 1909 Abraham Walkowitz, Isadora Duncan
These two American modernists, painter Abraham Walkowitz and dancer Isadora Duncan,
born in the same year (1878), both artists influenced the development of modern art in the
early twentieth century by blending figurative gesture with abstraction. Duncan grew up in a
free-spirited and artistic household in California and then moved to Europe. Walkowitz
immigrated to the United States from Russia when he was a child and lived most of his
life in New York City, where he studied at Cooper Union School and the National
Academy of Design.
Abraham Walkowitz’s The studio 8 East 23rd Street New York
Walkowitz and Duncan met in 1906 in Paris at the studio of the sculptor Auguste Rodin. Deeply
impressed by Duncan’s musicality and expressivity, Abraham Walkowitz’s obsession with the
celebrated modern dancer Isadora Duncan sets him apart from the others. Over his lifetime it
is believed that he created five thousand images of her, dancing . Because Walkowitz’s
renderings of Duncan were produced quickly, they carry an element of improvisational
vitality that matches the dynamic energy of her presence onstage.
Ann Cooper Albright, Modern Gestures: Abraham Walkowitz Draws
Isadora Duncan Dancing, 2010
Abraham Walkowitz- Isadora Duncan Eight Watercolors each, watercolor, ink and pencil on paper
Abraham Walkowitz, Isadora Duncan, 1908
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Photographic Games | Jaromír Funke, 1923 - 1945
Jaromir Funke, Untitled, 1923
Jaromir Funke, Woman with Mask, 1925
Jaromir Funke, Glass and Reflections, 1929
Jaromir Funke, Untitled (Girl’s head and hand), 1935 Jaromír Funke, Oranges, 1930
Jaromír Funke, Solitude and Glasses, 1924
Jaromir Funke, Untitled, 1932 Jaromir Funke, Glass and Reflections ,1929
Jaromír Funke, Homage to Matisse, 1924
Jaromir Funke, Untitled, 1935 Jaromir Funke, Glass and Reflection, 1929
Jaromir Funke, Composition, 1925
Jaromir Funke, Landscape, 1940 - 1941 Jaromir Funke, On the Outskirts of the City, 1940
Jaromir Funke, Staircase of old Prague, 1924
Jaromir Funke,Miroslav Kouřil, Wedekind, Spring Awakening Scene, 1936 Jaromir Funke, In museum (The Modern Gallery) , 1936
Jaromir Funke (1896-1945)
Josef Sudek, Portrait of Jaromír Funke, 1924 Jaromir Funke, After Carnival, 1924
Jaromír Funke (1896–1945) studied medicine, law and philosophy at Charles University in Prague
but did not graduate. Instead he concentrated on becoming a professional freelance photographer.
By 1922 he was a leader of the young opposition movement in photography and a founder of the
Czech Society of Photography (1924) whose mission was to create photography that would
fulfil new social functions.
Time Persists, 1930-34
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Ash tree | Octavio Paz, 1914-1998
*
Last night an ash tree
was about to tell
me something—it didn’t.
Octavio Paz, Distant Neighbor
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Alphabetarion # Upside down | Erik Pevernagie, 2015
Akira Kusaka
“If we don’t want life to pass us by, while the world is swiveling around us, let’s look
“If we don’t want life to pass us by, while the world is swiveling around us, let’s look
inwards and turn things upside down in the inner chambers of our mind. Only after
reshuffling our rooted values we can look outwards, find out the fascinations of life,
and rediscover our selves, layer after layer. ”
Erik Pevernagie, Finally unbend, 2015
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Erik Pevernagie, Finally unbend, 2015
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Flick Review < The Crimson Kimono | Samuel Fuller, 1959
The Crimson Kimono (1959)
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cinematography: Sam Leavitt
Stars: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta
Glenn Corbett and James Shigeta in The Crimson Kimono (1959)
Glenn Corbett and James Shigeta in The Crimson Kimono (1959)
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