John Fekner

mainefrontier:

Fire in the White Mountains

whitemountainhistory.org

oldhollywood:

Nina Simone performing at the Pan-African Festival in Algiers (1969). Photo by Guy Le Querrec.

“Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It’s like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can’t be found on any instrument. That’s like me. I live in between this. I live in both worlds, the black and white world. I am Nina Simone, the star, and I am not here. I’m a woman. My secret self is between these worlds.” 

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oldhollywood:

(L to R) Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach on the set of The Misfits (1960, dir. John Huston) (via)

Photographer: Cornell Capa

Miles Standish

commasplice-:

There is a reason why I seek the rooftops. The roof is a place of longing. As a human being, my feet stick to the ground and I am forced to walk.

My freedom is restricted by physical obstructions and the prohibitive culture around me. For this reason I come to the roof to look at the the city below and the sky above.

Here I will show you some of the places I have seen and some of the people I have met on my walks under the sky of Dhaka.

— Peter Helles

praxymetry:

If we could imagine for an instant (we cannot) the pain and fear that live around the corner from our own ideas of Freedom, and were somehow willing to envision a time before the military industrial complex began its ongoing campaign(s) to liberate the nations of the world from their leaders and religious traditions, it might be possible to understand this image. Sadly, however, it isn’t possible. Not for you, and not for me. We weren’t paying attention then.

Update: The Subject of Massoud Hossaini’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photo - NYTimes.com

visual-poetry:

graffiti found in nepal

(via huntersavage)

medievalthedas:

Talismanic shirt, 15th or early 16th century
India (north India or the Deccan)
Ink, gold, and colors on stiffened cotton

Embellished with the full text of the Qur’an and also, in the borders, with the ninety-nine names of God as well as holy sayings, this well-preserved shirt served a talismanic function for the warrior who wore it under his armor; it thus protected him with the Divine Message in battle. Talismanic shirts are known in versions from Iran, Turkey, and India, but early examples such as this are rare.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art

crashinglybeautiful:

Walter Rosenblum, Girl on a Swing, Pitt St., New York 1938. Thank you, so30s.

tblant:

Great Flood of 1937, Louisville

(Source: wfplnews)

illllllllllllli:

Here is my essay on racism.

claytoncubitt:

All Your Dreams Belong to Us, NYC

imageinfomood:

by Wim Wenders

from the series Places, Strange and Quiet

Dinosaur and Family, California, 1983

claytoncubitt:

Same as it ever was, NYC