Dada artist: Hannah Höch exploring the dark side Corneliu Baba randoms forgotten realities 90s flashback: heroin chic poem-photo-painting

 

Mar 28, 2012

randoms


by Steven Klein, c.1993

Centuries-old Vessels
(via National Gallery of Art)


Bulle Ogier in La Vallée, 1972

by Suzie Q + Leo Siboni

by Agan Harahap

Vincent Gallo & Christina Ricci
in Buffalo '66, 1998


by Christine Elfman

Three Women with Three Wolves
by Eugene Grasset, 1900


Still Life by James Day

Ashley & Mary Kate Olsen

Jenny Rylance

Kurt Cobain

Lynn Redgrave & Rita Tushingham, 1967

The Devil Probably (poster), 1977

Allegory of Death
by Maximilian Pirner, 1895


by Michael Raedecker

Vintage Lady (© Burns Archive)

Michelle Pfeiffer

Armadillo
by Robert Runyon


by Richard Avedon

Sam Taylor Wood by Courtney Love
ph: Michael Evanet

Mar 24, 2012

meetings


Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Hans Arp, Salvador Dalí,
Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, René Crevel & Man Ray, 1933


Twinka & Judy Dater
by JoAnn Frank, 1974


Andre Breton & Benjamin Peret, c.1959

Salvador Dali & Coco Chanel

Jean Luc Godard & Brian Jones, 1968

Marie-Berthe Aurenche, Max Ernst,
Lee Miller & Man Ray, 1930s


Madonna & Steven Meisel, 1991

Yves Saint Laurent & Betty Catroux, 1968

Max Ernst & Dorothea Tanning, 1947

Gia Carangi, Patti Hansen, Sandy Linter
& Juli Foster by Michael Tighe, 1979


William Morris & Edward Burne-Jones, 1890

deux

Vivienne Westwood, fall 2012
source: style.com

Mar 20, 2012

burnt dreams..

two amazing films of the '70s
Badlands
by Terrence Malick, 1973


Stroszek
by Werner Herzog, 1977

Mar 18, 2012

vintage opium smokers


Women in an Opium Den, 1890 (© Burns Archive)

The Dividend, 1916 (movie still)

Jean Cocteau by Cecil Beaton, 1930

opium poppy

by Leon Busy, 1915

Brassai, Self-portrait in an Opium Den,1931

by Brassai

Anti-Opium Illustration, c.1930

Customer Cooking Up the Opium to Prepare It For Smoking
by George Lacks


Customer Smoking Opium at an Opium Den
by George Lacks


Shanghai Gal opium smoker, c.1925

Opium Dreams by Attila Sassy, 1909
(source: flickr.com)