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June 2011

190 posts

“death and birth

A group of poplars
suspended between sky and earth
they are a quiver of light more than a trembling of leaves
                                    Do they rise
                                                or fall?

The present is motionless”


− Octavio Paz, Selected Poems, excerpt from “Wind from all compass points” translated by Paul Blackburn

(thanks to orioninacobweb)

Jun 30, 201111 notes
#Octavio Paz #death #birth #suspension #motionless #time #poetry #lit
Jun 30, 201135 notes
#Mario Giacomelli #Giacomelli #Bastari #Portrait #Painter #Black and White #Monochrome #Art Photography
Jun 30, 201167 notes
#Mario Giacomelli #Giacomelli #Fine-Art Photography #Art Photography #Art #Black and White #Monochrome
Jun 30, 201160 notes
#Mario Giacomelli #Giacomelli #Fine-Art #Art Photography #Monochrome #Silver Print #Italy
Jun 30, 201129 notes
#Wolf Suschitzky #Suschitzky #Photography #Street #Black and White #Fine-Art #Art Photography #Monochrome
Jun 30, 201111 notes
#Wolf Suschitzky #Suschitzky #London #England #Statue #Art #Fine-Art Photography #Fine Art #Black and White #Monochrome

Awoken in bed without having slept—mingling words with spindles in me.

- Dion Palinckx

Jun 30, 201114 notes
#Dion Palinckx
Jun 30, 201177 notes
#Wolf Suschitzky #Suschitzky #Italy #Fine-Art Photography #Art Photography #Umbrella #Umbrellas #Rain #Rainy #Black and White #Monochrome #Vintage
Jun 30, 201139 notes
#Wolf Suschitzky #Suschitzky #Nine Elms #London #England #Fine-Art Photography #Fine-Art #Art Photography #Black and White #Monochrome #Vintage

Because I greatly sympathize with those who regularly publish their own work on Tumblr:

http://marionblank.tumblr.com/

http://rery.tumblr.com/

http://blog.millsbaker.net/

http://brick1.tumblr.com/

http://areaofinterest.tumblr.com/

http://thedailydoodles.tumblr.com/

http://maggymag.tumblr.com/

http://samgarton.tumblr.com/

Jun 27, 201117 notes
#Tumblr Artist #Inspiring People
Jun 27, 2011187 notes
#Alex Federov #Federov #Moscovites #Russia #Russian #Fine-Art Photography #Fine-Art #Portrait #Black and White #Monochrome
“… Loneliness can be the escape of the sick; loneliness can also be escape from the sick… .” —Friedrich Nietzsche. Upon The Mount Of Olives. Part Three. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. (thanks seeyoulateraggregator)
Jun 27, 201129 notes
#Nietzsche
Jun 26, 201148 notes
#André Kertész #Kertész #Mondrian #Mondriaan #Still Life #Still-Life #Fine-Art Photography #Art Photography #Composition #Black and White #Monochrome
Jun 26, 201168 notes
#Henri Berssenbrugge #1930s
Jun 26, 2011173 notes
#Wolfgang Suschitzky #Suschitzky #Shipyard #Newcastle #Art Photography #Fine-Art Photography #Black and White #Monochrome #Ship #Boat #Surrealism
“Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.” —D.H. Lawrence
Jun 26, 201129 notes
#D.H. Lawrence #Lit #Literature #Poetry #Quote #Philosophy
Jun 26, 2011907 notes
#Wolfgang Suschitzky #Suschitzky #Amsterdam #Fine-Art Photography #Fine-Art #Black and White #Monochrome #Vintage
Jun 26, 2011227 notes
#Wolfgang Suschitzky #Suschitzky #London #England #GB #Fine-Art #Fine-Art Photography #Black and White #Monochrome #Vintage
Jun 26, 2011210 notes
#Bert Hardy #Hardy #Newcastle #GB #England #Fine-Art Photography #Fine-Art #Black and White #Monochrome
Jun 26, 201147 notes
#Edouard Boubat #Boubat #Lella #Portrait #Fine-Art Photography #Fine-Art #Black and White #Monochrome

This was one of those scarce moments when fate seemed to pulverize all brittle certainties and left behind a crippling haze of disbelief.

- Dion Palinckx

Jun 26, 201116 notes
#Writing a novel while listening to Bach #I'm sorry that I can't put up with your geniosity
Jun 26, 2011578 notes
#De Valera #Black and White #Monochrome #Fine-Art Photography #Fine-Art #New York Times #Vintage
“I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.” —Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, 1912–1935
Jun 25, 2011170 notes
#Fernando Pessoa #Pessoa #Lit #Literature #Poetry
Jun 23, 201152 notes
#Hans Staub #Staub #Fine-Art Photography #Black and White #Monochrome #Sleeping Man #Vintage #Art Photography
Jun 23, 201151 notes
#Willy Ronis #Ronis #Vincent #Art Photography #Kid #Sleeping Kid #Sleeping Child #Fine-Art Photography #Black and White #Monochrome #Portrait
Jun 23, 2011116 notes
#Marcel Duchamp #Duchamp #Waterfall #Illuminating Gas #Art #Fine-Art Photography #Art Photography #Black and White #Monochrome #Vintage
“When someone hides something behind a bush and looks for it again in the same place and finds it there as well, there is not much to praise in such seeking and finding. Yet this is how matters stand regarding seeking and finding “truth” within the realm of reason. If I make up the definition of a mammal, and then, after inspecting a camel, declare “look, a mammal” I have indeed brought a truth to light in this way, but it is a truth of limited value. That is to say, it is a thoroughly anthropomorphic truth which contains not a single point which would be “true in itself” or really and universally valid apart from man. At bottom, what the investigator of such truths is seeking is only the metamorphosis of the world into man.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense, 1873
Jun 23, 201133 notes
#Friedrich Nietzsche #Nietzsche #Philosophy #Philosopher #Truth and Lie #Truth #Lie
Jun 22, 201177 notes
#Willy Ronis #Ronis #Bastille #Fine-Art Photography #Fine-Art #Art Photography #Love #Couple #Landscape #City #Cityscape #Black and White #Monochrome
“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.” —Gustave Flaubert
Jun 22, 2011231 notes
#Gustave Flaubert #Flaubert #Lit #Poetry #Writing
Jun 22, 201156 notes
#Louis Stettner #Stettner #Aubervilliers #Kids #France #Fine-Art Photography #Fine-Art #Portrait

When metaphors evolved into brainpainters
and when visual elements gave birth to wordshapers.

- Dion Palinckx

Jun 21, 201114 notes
#Dion Palinckx
Jun 21, 2011197 notes
#Tono Stano #Stano #Sense #Art #Art Photography #Black and White #Monochrome #Portrait #Fashion
“Haven’t you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you’ve had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?” —Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1857
Jun 21, 201144 notes
#Gustave Flaubert #Flaubert #Lit #Poetry #Literature #Quote
Jun 20, 2011626 notes
#Andrei Tarkovsky #Tarkovsky #Stalker #Film #Still #Art #Russia #Russian #Philosophy #Poetry #Quote
Jun 20, 2011218 notes
#Lionel Deriaz #Deriaz #Fine-Art Photography #Art Photography #Art #Black and White #Monochrome
“It is only through art that we can escape from ourselves and know how another person sees a universe which is not the same as our own and whose landscapes would otherwise have remained as unknown as any there may be on the moon.” —Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Swann’s Way, 1918 (thanks rerylikes)
Jun 20, 2011179 notes
Jun 20, 201162 notes
#Film #Philosophy #Poetry #Stalker #Still #Tarkovskiy #Andrei Tarkovsky #Tarkovsky
Jun 20, 201118 notes
#K. Parekh #Fine-Art Photography #Art Photography #Black and White #Monochrome
Jun 20, 201131 notes
#Sabine Weiss #Weiss #Fog #Fine-Art Photography #Black and White #Monochrome
“The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.”
—T.S.Eliot, Choruses from The Rock, 1934
Jun 20, 201125 notes
#Eliot #Lit #Poetry #T.S.Eliot #Invention #Idea #Motion #Stilness #Silence
Jun 20, 201173 notes
#Brassaï #Alberto Giacometti #Art #Portrait #Black and White #Monochrome #Giacometti #Paris
Jun 19, 201195 notes
#Michał Cała #Fine-Art Photography #Art Photography #Black and White #Monochrome
“When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.” —Gertrude Stein, Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded, 1931
Jun 19, 201117 notes
#Gertrude Stein #Lit #Poetry #Quote #Sleeping #Dreaming
Jun 19, 2011107 notes
#Art Photography #Black and White #Brassaï #Fine-Art Photography #Kissing Couple #Monochrome #Vintage
“I am an artist. It’s self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, ‘I know all about it. I’ve already found it.’ As far as I’m concerned, the word means, ‘I am looking. I am hunting for it, I am deeply involved.’” —Vincent van Gogh (source; posted by crashinglybeautiful, via proustitute)
Jun 19, 20111,172 notes
#Vincent van Gogh #van gogh #art #artists #hunting #searching #involvement
Jun 19, 2011134 notes
#Gérard Rondeau #Rondeau #Fine-Art Photography #Fine-Art #Black and White #Monochrome
“A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.” —Thomas Mann, Essay on Freud, 1929
Jun 19, 2011120 notes
#Thomas Mann #Truth #Quote #Lit #Philosophy
Jun 19, 2011470 notes
#Marcel Bovis #Bovis #Fine-Art Photography #Fine-Art #Black and White #Monochrome
“It would be good to give much thought, before
you try to find words for something so lost,
for those long childhood afternoons you knew
that vanished so completely—and why?

We’re still reminded—: sometimes by a rain,
but we can no longer say what it means;
life was never again so filled with meeting,
with reunion and with passing on

as back then, when nothing happened to us
except what happens to things and creatures:
we lived their world as something human,
and became filled to the brim with figures.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Childhood, Translated by Edward Snow
Jun 19, 2011147 notes
#Rainer Maria Rilke #Rilke #Lit #Poem #Quote
Jun 19, 201137 notes
#Marcel Bovis #Bovis #Fine-Art Photography #Black and White #Monochrome #Art Photography
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