#Portrait of Lydia

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LYDIA LUNCH ph. Jose Porroche for Dazed Magazine

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Lydia + Walk Walk Fashion Baby (featuring an increasingly unhinged number of pins)

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Laura Knight - Lydia Lopokova at the Looking Glass (1923)

Lydia Lopokova trained as a ballerina at the Imperial School of Ballet in St Petersburg. Her appearance with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1918 took London by storm. Maynard Keynes became captivated by her childlike gaiety and idiosyncratic English, and after the failure of Diaghilev’s company, arranged accommodation for her in Bloomsbury. Four years later, in 1925, she became his wife, an event that upset the equilibrium of Vanessa Bell’s and Duncan Grant’s close friendship with Keynes. Despite this, the couple moved to Tilton, less than a mile from Charleston, where Lydia continued to live after her husband’s death. (source)

[vanhelsingapologist]

Victor Vallakoposting to celebrate the beginning of his Unwilling Burgomaster arc + his medieval goth fit I never felt like drawing and family doodle.

[ikiaarre]

Some of my fave character designs ever! Paradise Killer is an amazing game 💜💙

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Lydia Field Emmet (American, 1866-1952): Goldfish, a Portrait of Roland and Peter Hazard (1921) (via Bonhams)

[woodsmanwife]

My wife Lydia Luxy

[howlingdemon13]

Yay, more old art from like February! In my *counting on fingers* 7 months in the fandom, I hadn't seen anyone do the Big Enough screaming cowboy meme with Beej, so here ya go. It's so fitting. Backgrounds are the bane of my existence. :')

[weneedtotalkaboutcate]

Cate Blanchett & Nina Hoss 2023 Berlinale Star Portraits.

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some portraits i’ve done

[contremineur]

Lydia Roberts

from here

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Lydia Landez

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Lydia Waldrop Lydia Waldrop - Giambattista Valli - PFW HCAW23 Book┃IG

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Lydia Dmitrievsky (Russian, 1895–1967) - A woman

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Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

Kelibor as Beetlejuice Ethel as Lydia Deetz

[thatrickmcginnis]

LYDIA LUNCH, Toronto 1988

The closest thing I had to a photographer's studio in early 1988 was an unused room behind the bar at the Silver Dollar Room, a former showbar-turned-strip club that was reopened as a rock club the previous year. This was where I'd do a series of portrait shoots that turned out to be pivotal in my early career, beginning with Lydia Lunch, who came to Toronto on January 26, 1988 on a spoken word tour. Lydia was a star in my little world, famous since her band Teenage Jesus & the Jerks had four songs on the landmark No New York compilation album a decade earlier. She was by this point known as a force of nature, making records and films and publishing books, with a personal style that was as influential as Siouxsie Sioux in that every town's scene had at least a couple of dozen young women who looked exactly like her.

Lydia Lunch showed up performing the material she'd later release on her Oral Fixation record, a pioneer of the spoken word genre (along with former Black Flag singer Henry Rollins - more about him shortly) that would turn out to have real longevity. My photos of her were meant to accompany an article my friend Tim was writing - a paean to the woman who was a kind of nihilist sex symbol in the underground subcultures that had formed since punk rock. So I tried to approach the shoot as something like glamour photography, not dissimilar to the photos I'd take of actress (and onetime Bond Girl) Jane Seymour for a fashion magazine a couple of weeks later. Bringing along my little portable studio - a light stand and umbrella bounce, a portable flash and a big white painter's tarp I carrried around in a gym bag - I cleared a space in the storage room at the Silver Dollar and found an unbroken bar stool that I place midway between my tarp backdrop and my flash.

Delivering a decent shot must have been a priority when I photographed Lydia Lunch because I shot two whole rolls of 120 film that evening hoping for something worthwhile. If you know anything about Lydia you'll have some sense of how intimidating she can be, by choice. (I don't think she'd have a problem with that statement.) My contact sheets show me moving closer with my camera as I got a bit more confident with my subject, who (perhaps accidentally) presented a bit more than her usual defiant face as we talked and took pictures. Lydia had just released Honeymoon in Red, working with guitarist Rowland S. Howard (about whom more soon) and members of The Birthday Party; when I told Howard (in the same back room at the Silver Dollar) that I'd photographed Lydia just a few weeks later, he asked how she was, and I said that there were occasional frames where I got a glimpse of the Catholic girl from upstate New York. He smiled and agreed, laughing that while he'd seen the same aspect of Lydia, he was sure she wouldn't be pleased about it being revealed.