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The Wild Swans by Jennie Harbour (English, 1893–1959)

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(via Nudes With Attitude from Vienna’s Studio Manasse (NSFW) - Flashbak)

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Clouds stream before the face of the full moon. Elfie's visit to Cloudland and the moon. 1891.

Internet Archive

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Letters Home by Jonas Mekas and Adolfas Mekas (Jonas Mekas film frame) 

https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/13802/inside-a-new-posthumously-released-book-by-jonas-mekas-letters-home

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Helmut Newton, Sigourney Weaver, 1987

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I think it's cute how so many art movements are simply called "new art" to differentiate "not like the old stuff". Contemporary dance. New wave fashion. Pop (literally popular) music. Art Nouveau. Modernism. Postmodernism. Even terms starting with neo- (neo-classicism, neo-expressionism) all are just saying NEW ART. And yet all of these things are now distinctive styles of the past. It's kind of beautiful how humanity never stops outgrowing itself. Art is a state of matter that refuses to sit still, old as soon as it is new, original upon its thousandth performance, new forever so long as there is someone who has not yet seen it, and old the second the artist picks up their instrument again.

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Antigone Kourakou

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Will Burgdorf (1905 Hannover - 1944) Hände der Schauspielerin Marlies Homann-Palm

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/ Eve Arnold, Silvana Mangano with Brancusi at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1956

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In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig

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Mental Image photography series by Alison Jackson, exploring the cult of celebrities and our relationship to what is 'real'.

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Colloque International France-Japon sur les Toilettes, INA, Actualités Régionales Ile-de-France, 1992

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Gianpaolo Pagni, GRANDE STORIA DELL’ARTE ITALIANA, [series], (rubber stamp, pencil, ballpoint pen, and fountain pen on original pages of the book Storia dell’arte Italiana, G. C. Arfan (Sansoni, 1986)), 2025 [© Gianpaolo Pagni]

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Ruins of a Mausoleum, Tus, Iran (circa 1900) - A testament to time, the crumbling dome and detailed brickwork reveal the architectural legacy of a bygone era.

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Brooklyn in December 2024

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Outfit Inspiration

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)

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Harpya, Raoul Servais (dir), 1979

This Belgian short film that mixes both the surreal and the symbolic, is both horrifying and amusing. You can watch it here (8m 45s).