Rare Color Photographs of Early 1900 Paris
The following pictures are pretty rare color photographs from Paris, captured early 1900. At that time, the Lumière technique was chosen to capture these scenes. Great are the motives, also the quality of the pictures!
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Hesitate // Activate // Deviate by Alexa Meade & Sheila Vand.
Photographs of a portrait Alexa Meade painted on performance artist Sheila Vand’s body while submerged in a pool of milk.
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— Franz Kafka (via morningkeepthestreetsempyforme)
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By the side of an old woman
who is dying in a corridor
no one stands
Staring at the ceiling
for so many days already
she writes in the air with her finger
There are no tears no laments
no wringing of hands
not enough angels on duty
Some deaths are polite and quiet
as if somebody gave up his place
in a crowded tram
Stanley Kubrick, “Life and Love on the New York City Subway (Couple Sleeping on a Subway)” (1946)/Courtesy collections of the Museum of the City of New York.
“Stanley took thousands of images for Look Magazine between 1945 and 1950,” Phil Grosz, from SK Film Archives, told me. “He sold the first image at age sixteen.” The Museum of the City of New York writes, “Many of the shots are candid portraits of people seemingly unaware of any camera, perhaps indicating the use of some sort of spy or buttonhole camera.”
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Caitlin Annette Johnson “Do Everything Well” 2013 [Sci-Fi Series]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/2e0ed099efe6b0a92d55f7184851f6fc/tumblr_miqgifqEpR1s55x8do1_500.jpg)
Caitlin Annette Johnson “Do Everything Well” 2013 [Sci-Fi Series]
Marina Abramović and Ulay, Death Self, 1977
To create this Death self, the two performers devised a piece in which they connected their mouths and took in each other’s exhaled breaths until they had used up all of the available oxygen. Seventeen minutes after the beginning of the performance they both fell to the floor unconscious, their lungs having filled with carbon dioxide. This personal piece explored the idea of an individual’s ability to absorb the life of another person, exchanging and destroying it.
Ulay and Abramović collaborated together for over a decade, upholding an intense and intimate relationship. In 1988, the two began a spiritual journey to end their relationship; each started at opposite ends of the Great Wall of China, walked 2500 km over a span of 90 days, met in the center, and said good-bye.
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