frigile tension

photography by Ronald Stoops
make-up by Inge Grognard

sources: here, here & here

purple trilogy

photos by me

circus portraits

Zelda Boden by Frederick W. Glasier, c.1924

Pete & Florence Mardo by Frederick W. Glasier, 1923

Clowns by Frederick W. Glasier, c.1905

Mademoiselle Scheel with Lions by Frederick W. Glasier, c.1905

'Circus Portraits 1976-1977' by Burkhard Jüttner

May Vandermark

Circus by Andrew Shaylor

 Circus Portraits, 1931 by Richard H. Stewart

(National Geographic, Oct.1931 issue - 'The Land of Sawdust and Spangles-A World in Miniature')

by Wendy Carrig

(sources: here, here, here & here)

uncommon places

photography by Stephen Shore

Tucumcari, New Mexico, July 1972

Church Street & Second Street, Easton, Pennsylvania, June 1974

Aiken, South Carolina, June 1972

U.S. 22, Union, New Jersey, April 1974

Toledo, Ohio, July 1972

Twenty-First Street & Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1974

Holbrook, Arizona, June 1972

El Paso Street, El Paso, Texas, July 1975

(source: here)

randoms

Blue Velvet Movie by Andrew Valko, 2008

Florals by Mark Sink

Nothing Lasts Forever by Anatol Knotek, 2012

Mario Sorrenti by Drew Jarrett

The Worst is Yet to Come by Steve Schapiro, 1968

by Kai Cem Narin

unknown

The Heart of the Night (Mariana in the Moated Grange) 

by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862

Robert De Niro by Bruce Weber

Bianca Jagger, Mustique 70s / ph.David Howells

The Fall by Gonzalo Lebrija, 2008

Between Life & Death by Gonzalo Lebrija

Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin by Jeanloup Sieff

Sea of Faces by Evelyn Williams

How to Be in the Moment by Friedrich Kunath

by Saga Sig

Ghost Lady

by Kai Cem Narin