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Photographers Unknown, Images from the Black and White Collection
“Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among the beggars and rakers of the garbage, profound passion is enacted. And the circumstances that provoke it, however trivial or mean, are no measure of its power.”
― Herman Melville, Billy Budd
Photographers Unknown, Beguiling the Senses and Enchanting the Mind: Photo Set Five
“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide
like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;
but a hidden star can still be smiling
at night’s black spell on darkness, beguiling”
—Munia Khan
Photographers Unknown, Ten Guys and Ten Cameras
“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye
The World of Jeans
“I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.”
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Reblogged with many thanks to https://lowlanderbear.tumblr.com
Photographer Unknown, Nine Photos of Note
Reblogged with many thanks to the artist’s site: http://theobscurist.tumblr.com
Black and White Photos: Here and There
“Infinite mercy flows continually
But you’re asleep and can’t see it.
The sleeper’s robe goes on drinking river water
While he frantically hunts mirages in dreams
And runs continually here and there shouting,
“There’ll be water further on, I know!”
It’s this false thinking that blocks him
From the path that leads to himself,
By always saying, “Further on!”
He’s become estranged from “here”:
Because of a false fantasy
He’s driven from reality.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi
Photographers Unknown, Photo Sessiosn of Dancer and Performer Bruno Morais
Photographers Unknown, The Parts and Pieces Making a Whole: Set Two
The whole, as modern science is insisting in many fields, is not merely the sum of all its parts, but the result of an unique arrangement and interrelation of the parts that has brought about a new entity.”.
― Ruth Benedict, Patterns and Culture
Ten Black and White Photos: Men and Buildings
“We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves.”
― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
The Surreal Photography of Dariusz Klimczak
Polish photographer Dariusz Klimczak composes dreamlike landscapes that hypnotize with their surprise and weirdness. The photographer’s digital photo manipulations open the door to his imaginative world, where a desolate desert is brought to life by quirky and playful characters. Everyday items clash in odd compositions with animals and humans, conflicting with gravity and the other physical laws without which our common sense would collapse.
Dariusz Klimczak has been a professional photographer for 30 years, a few of which he spent creating photo manipulations. The artist prefers monochromatic images which present the scenes with a more authentic and mystical quality.
Photographers Unknown, A Man is Like a Novel
A man is like a novel; until the very last page you don’t know how it will end. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be worth reading.
― Zamyatin Yevgeny, We
Twelve Faces to Remember
“He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.”
–Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
Ron English, “Temper Tot”, 2017, White Limoges Porcelain
Revisiting his “Temper Tot” figure again in May of 2017, Ron English has partnered with K.Olin Tribu once more to issue an edition of the “Temper Tot” form in porcelain, this new version featuring black decoration on the character’s torn pants. Standing roughly 7-inches tall, 4-inches wide, and 2½-inches deep, this new version of English’s terrifically strong and terrifyingly immature “Temper Tot” was limited to an edition of 50 pieces, each completely finished and reworked by hand to ensure the finest quality, The porcelain was kept free of enamel to ensure that all the details of its musculature are defined and prominent.
As for the intent behind the “Temper Tot” character, it embodies the “combustible amalgamation of unbridled id and unbounded brawn”, as the solicitation text for the original vinyl sculpture stated, and “all misdirected anger and prideful immaturity” as well as being “more self-possessed than self-aware, both jealous of and threatened by the image of himself he presents to the world”.
The Color: Red
“Your veins are using up the redness of the world.”
― Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency
