day after day

Pavlos Sidiropoulos (1948-1990)
Prince of Greek Rock

a musical combination of blues, rock & Greek folk music

the song was recorded in 1973

the early editions

photographic illustrations
by Adelaide Hanscom

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photography in primordial contexts
by Anne Brigman

loved it...

Cate Blanchett in a dress from

Alexander McQueen's Pre-Fall 2010 collection

the muse & the famous artworks

Marchesa Luisa Casati
by Adolph de Meyer, 1912

Marchesa Casati by Augustus John

Jack Kerouac, in his San Francisco Blues (1954), included a number of poems inspired by this painting...

Marchesa Casati
Is a living doll
Pinned on my Frisco
Skid row wall

Her eyes are vast
Her skin is shiny
Blue veins
And wild red hair
Shoulders sweet & tiny

Love her
Love her
Sings the sea
Bluely
Moaning
In the Augustus John
de John
background

Jack Kerouac by Elliott Erwitt, 1953

Marchesa Casati by Man Ray

Marquise de Casati
by Kees van Dongen

Marchesa Casati by Jacob Epstein, 1918

La marchesa Luisa Casati con penne di pavone
by Giovanni Boldini

Reclining Nude
by Giovanni Boldini

the ritual

by Baldovino Barani

source: here

space for fantasy

Akatre

source: here

bohemian family

Gypsy-like fantasies...

Augustus John, Family & Friends

Augustus John

Lyric Fantasy by Augustus John c. 1913-14

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Dorelia McNeill

Woman Smiling
by Augustus John 1908-9

Woman by a Riverbank
by Augustus John c. 1910-12

Dorelia in a Black Dress
by Gwen John, 1903

Dorelia in the Garden at Alderney Manor
by Augustus John, 1911

Dorelia Standing before a Fence
by Augustus John c. 1903-4

Dorelia by Augustus John

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Talitha Getty
by Maurice Hogenboom
Marrakech, 1971 (via corbis)

(source: tfs)

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Augustus John with
Tallulah Bankhead and her portrait, 1929