Homage to the Square, Josef Albers
oroma elewa photographed by Vanessa Jackman.
Model wearing a velvet jacket and shoes, 1950s. Photo by Tom Palumbo.
Can they just be together in real life so I can continue this obsession?
Willem de Kooning studio in East Hampton, Archetectual Digest, 1983
Oh the whiteness!
Missed seeing this a few days ago… had to repost it now, it’s just so cool!
I can’t ever get enough of Cindy Sherman.
Cecil Beaton once said that “making oneself a work of art” was “that most difficult of all causes.” Cindy Sherman not only does that, she’s given herself up entirely to the mission. For nearly four decades, she has been braiding together fashion, photography, and the strange internal magic of herself—dressing up, putting on makeup, doing her hair, donning wigs, and posing alone in her studio for the camera. She shows us fashion as costume, compulsion, camp, ritual, and necessity.
Happy Valentine’s Day! Now get off your computer and go smooch somebody.
Debbie Reynolds Valentine, 1950s.









