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A Hupa man waits to spear a fish in the smoky valley of the Trinity River.  Photographed by Edward S. Curtis in 1923

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Hercules Segers.

Mountain Valley With Dead Pine Trees, c. 1623.

Mountain Valley with Fenced Fields, c. 1615–30.

River Valley with a Waterfall, c. 1621-1632.

The Mossy Tree, c. 1625–1630.

Escape to Egypt, c. 1652.

Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right (First version), c. 1625-1630.

Mountain Gorge Bordered by a Road, c. 1621-1632.

Tobias and the Angel (The Flight into Egypt), c. 1615-1630.

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Homer B. Sprague. Milton’s Cosmography (Showing Conjecturally) The Empyreal Heavens, our Starry Universe, Hell, and Chaos, Universal Infinitude, Professor Hime’s Chaos with the Four Elemental Properties of Ancient Physics, The Empryean and Chaos, Vertical Section of Milton’s Cosmography. Diagrams for Milton’s Paradise Lost. 1879. 

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Winter in Stockholm, 1944. Einar Jolin. Oil on canvas

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Josef Váchal. Sunset over Javorem Mountain, Forest Boubín, Teufelsloch, Oka Moors on Neuhütten, Wildfire on the Moorkopf Mountain, Dead Forest, Rabbi, Weitfällen Moor, Title Page, Absit Omen. Colored Woodcuts from Šumava Umírající a Romantická (Gabreta Dying and Romantic). 1931.               Contd from here

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George Inness. Peace and Plenty. 1865. 

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(Unknown). Kometenbuch (Comet Book). Domina Capillorum, Veru, Unnamed, Scutella, Rosa, Miles, Geben ou Tenacusum, Azome Austrement Dominis Aschone, Aurora, Argentium. 1587.  

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Les Voiles Rouges, 1906. André Derain. Oil on canvas

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Abbas Kiarostami, Photographer

Abbas Kiarostami, the Iranian filmmaker who died on July 4th, was also an accomplished photographer. An undated photo of his, perhaps from the series “Roads,” appears on the cover of the NYRB Classics edition Yashar Kemal’s They Burn the Thistles (the sequel to Memed, My Hawk).

The image below is a still from Kiarostami’s Where is My Friends House.

At TCM.com, Greg Ferrara discusses the significance of the winding path image:

The audience gets to know the path [between villages] well. A sharply zig-zagged path, resembling a huge “Z”, takes Ahmed through a grove of olive trees and finally up (or down depending on direction) a small hill with several small gated pens lining its side. Ahmed goes through rigidly defined structure (the zig-zag path) to natural freedom (the tree grove) to a combination of the two (the final hill) with each trip.

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Premysel Koblic, View of a Village from Above, ca. 1930.

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Gerard Richter. Sea Landscape. 1971.

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A November Witch is, as the name suggests, not something to trifle with. The colorful name refers to the particularly nasty storms that pummel the Great Lakes around this time of year. They can be merciless systems; one such storm sank the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter 40 years ago.

Dave Sandford captures that power perfectly in his series Liquid Mountains, which he shot during four weeks on the shores of Port Stanley, Ontario. Although he respects the power of these storms, Sandford isn’t afraid of them. The worse things get, the more compelled he is to be outside.

Read more about how Sandford captured these vicious waves and check out more photos.

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The struggle is real.

 Source

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Tom Waits, Hollywood, CA, 1980. Henry Diltz. Silver gelatin print. Henry took this photo while Tom was working on the music for Francis Ford Coppolas, “One from the Heart.”

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“One should try anything he can in his career, except folkdance and incest.”

Happy 93rd Birthday Sir Christopher Lee (May 27, 1922)

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Charlie Parker Birdland, NYC (1949), by Herman Leonard