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The Canadian journal of medicine and surgery, 1897

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I had the occasion to visit what is perhaps one of my favourite images in the world this Fall in an archive room of the Photography department of MoMA as part of my research for the upcoming film. A delight I am still digesting. Alvin Baltrop. Untitled. 1975–86. Gelatin silver print, 4 9/16 × 6 3/4" (11.6 × 17.2 cm). The Family of Man Fund. Estate of Alvin Baltrop

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Astronomische Neujahrsnacht Erscheinung der Deutsche Schütze (Sagittarius) Töt den Engl. Wassermann (Aquarius) Astronomical New Year's Eve Page from Weimar art nouveau magazine "Jugend" (youth).

As the early Arts and Crafts ambitions faded and German Art Nouveau took hold of the magazine's aesthetic, iconic imagery of nude youth in idealized nature scenes were depicted more frequently. Along with other symbols of nature at its most magical — nymphs, centaurs, and satyrs — the associations between Jugendstil and the Lebensreform ('life reform') movement, which encouraged a return to a "natural" life-style, grew. In addition to modern illustrations and the ornamentation of Art Nouveau, the magazine featured impressionist and expressionist art, as well.

The journal also covered satirical and critical topics in culture, such as the increasing influence of the churches (especially Catholicism), and the political right in the Centre Party. The Yale Literary Magazine critic summarized the editorial attitude by noting that "Jugend's political and social platform [was] one opposition—opposition to everything." [wikipedia]

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Legendary porn film by Fred Halsted and Joey Yale, LA Plays Itself

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O Fantasma (2000) // dir. João Pedro Rodrigues

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William Blake Richmond, 1886

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From Life Magazine (1886)

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Mercury Tying His Sandals, Jean-André Delorme, 1881

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McGolrick Park by Jacqueline Tam

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Samuel Delany, 2020.

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William S. Burroughs invented the Wild Boys by restoring the severed genitals of Cybele’s eunuch priests with petroleum glue. It is neither a coincidence that Walt Whitman’s codeword for homosexual desire was “adhesiveness” nor that the German word for gay, Schwul, is derived from schwül, which means hot and humid, i.e. sticky-making. It is the task of Cybele’s dead and risen lovers to detach their phalluses again and fertilize her gardens with the bits and pieces.

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The Releaser, collage, 2019