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Huacos, Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche 1, ca. 100 BCE – 100 CE.
The Moche of Peru created erotic huacos throughout their 800-year period (c. 200 BC to c. 600 AD) resulting in the longest unbroken erotic ceramics tradition in the world, truly unique in the history of mankind.
Photographer Unknown, (Omega)
“Think of trying to balance a pencil vertically on its tip. No matter how we try to balance the pencil, it usually falls down. In fact, it requires a fine-tuning of great precision to start the pencil balanced just right so it doesn’t fall over. Now try to balance the pencil on its tip so that it stays vertical not just for one second but for years! You see the enormous fine-tuning that is involved to get Omega to be 0.1 today. The slightest error in fine-tuning Omega would have created Omega vastly different from 1. So why is Omega so close to 1 day, when by rights it should be astronomically different?”
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Photographer Unknown, (No Nudity Beyond This Point), Selfie
Photographer Unknown, (Wings Tattoo)
Minor White, “Tom Murphy (San Francisco)”, 1948. Gelatin Silver Print
An influential figure in 20th-century American photography, Minor White first worked as a photographer for the WPA (Works Progress Administration) in Portland, Oregon in the 1930s. Following WWII, he moved to New York and began to associate with a circle that included Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz.
From Stieglitz, White learned the impact of sequencing images and “equivalents”—or visual metaphors—and increasingly trained his lens on subject matter traditionally considered mundane, like doorways or paint peeling from a wall. White is also known for his contemplative and tonally nuanced studies of landscapes, nudes, and forms. In 1946, he moved to San Francisco, where he would work closely with Ansel Adams and become a friend of Edward Weston, both of whom White counted as major influences on his work.
Photographers Unknown, “Quim Gutiérrez”, Photo Shoots
Photographer Unknown, (Define Yourself)
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
-Harvey Fierstein
Photographer Unknown, (Playing Hookey)
Oil Paintings by Canadian artist David Folk:
David Folk,”Bunny Boy”, 2007, Oil on Canvas, 101.6 x 122 cm, Private Collection
David Folk, “Round About”, Date Unknown, Oil on Canvas, 152.4 x 213.4 cm, Private Collection
David Folk, “Back and Forth”, Date Unknown, Oil on Canvas, 162.6 x 304.8 cm, Private Collection
Photographer Unknown, (Looking Afar)
Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. ‘The necessary condition for an image is sight’, Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied ‘We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.’
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Photographer Unknown, (Men at the Pool)
Artist Unknown, (Shower Doorway), Computer Graphics, Gay Film Gifs
Photographer Unknown, (His Cat on the Bed)
John Currin, “Fishermen”, 2002, Oil on Canvas, 127 x 104.1 cm, Private Collection
Born in 1962, painter John Currin is known for his figurative works, which draw on sources ranging from the painting traditions of the Renaissance to 1950s advertisements. He is currently living and working in New York City.
Currin was born in Boulder, Colorado, and received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MFA from Yale University. Currin first received critical attention for his sensual paintings of female nudes. He frequently portrayed his nude figures as examinations of the various female archetypes found in visual culture, with a caricatured sexuality and studied emotions.
Currin’s later works include scenes and portraits painted with Mannerist aesthetics, featuring subjects with elongated, disproportionate limbs, and drawn from the genre of fashion magazines, pornography, and other commercial sources. Currin’s work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Tate Gallery in London, and at the Venice Biennale.
Scott Salinger, “Francisco Gabriel”, Photo Shoot
“Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
“After all,” sighed Narcissus the hunchback, “on me it looks good.
The contemplation of his reflection does not turn Narcissus into Priapus: the spell in which he is trapped is not a desire for himself but the satisfaction of not desiring the nymphs.
“I prefer my pistol to my p…,” said Narcissus; “it cannot take aim without my permission” – and took a pot shot at Echo.”
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