body play

ph: Arno Rafael Minkkinen

Banks, Oregon, 2003

Aare River, Berne, 1975

Fosters Pond, 1999

Soll, Austria, 1976

Ta' Cenc, Gozo, 2002

Le Bouquet d'Arbres, Malmo, 2007

Wilkinson's Saw, Fosters Pond, Mass, 1993
(source: here)

deux

Gustave Courbet

The Hammock, 1844

Self-portrait (The Desperate Man), c.1843–45

mixed

by Catherine Servel

Tatjana Patitz by Herb Ritts, 1991

Anja Konstantinova by Darren McDonald

by Catherine Servel

Dafne Cejas by Anthony Maule, 2010

Katie Shillingford wedding
ph: Amy Gwatkin

Anya K by Pierre Debusschere

by Roe Ethridge

Viktoriya Sasonkina

Kinga Rajzak by Ruth Hogben

Penelope Tree by Richard Avedon, 1967

Peter Gray & Masa Honda hair show, 2010

Missy Rayder by Catherine Servel

Hannah Holman by Catherine Servel

les fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

The Flowers of Evil (first edition)
with author's notes, 1857

The Flowers of Evil - cover illustration
by Felicien Rops, 1866

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"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy"
Charles Baudelaire

by Félix Nadar

Baudelaire et la Président Sabatier
by Thomas Couture, c.1850

Apollonie Sabatier
by Vincent Vidal

Femme piquée par un serpent (woman bitten by a snake)
by Auguste Clésinger, 1847 (model: Apollonie Sabatier)

Miroslav Hak

Town Corner, 1942

On the Balcony, 1944

Mask, 1938

Early Spring, 1942

instinctive

-Bob Richardson-

by Terry Richardson

Bob & Terry

Jill Kennington

Donna Mitchell

Marisa Berenson

Milla Jovovich & Mario Sorrenti

ornithology

illustrations by John James Audubon

Flamingo

White Gyrfalcons

Raven

Roseate Spoonbill

Ruffed Grouse

Snowy Owl

Great Egret

Great Cinereous Owl

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Great Gray Owl (the real thing...)