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Myriam Boulos

Syria december 2024

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"THE LATE NIGHT MOVIE ON TV: STERNS MOTEL IN VENICE, CA" BRUCE CONNER | JUN 10, 1978 [gelatin silver print | 12 × 9 3/10"]

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Alan Vega by Liz Lamere

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Taylor Mead in The Flower Thief (Ron Rice, 1960)

"Taylor Mead was a living embodiment of freedom and slack… and therefore had to be wiped out… but his legacy lives on in our memories and in the movies, writing and art he left behind, if anybody still cares." (Nick Zedd)

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captured women - jeff dunas (1981)

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James Thrall Soby (photograph), Alexander Calder with 'Steel Fish', Roxbury, CT, 1934 [© Calder Foundation, New York, NY / ARS, New York]

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Happy 88th, Thomas Pynchon.

Swedish edition of Inherent Vice (2009).

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MC5 - Looking At You - 1968

The original 1968 45 version. This version is much more garage-y, fuzzed-up and trebly than the 1970 re-recording on the BACK IN THE USA album version, which is pretty fuzzed and trebly itself. From the 30th anniversary re-issue single issued in 1998.

From 7” vinyl: MC5 - Looking At You b/w Borderline (A-Square NER 3012) 1998

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Hunter S. Thompson & Oscar Zeta Acosta, c. 1971

Original caption: “The author, shown here in the Baccarat Lounge of Caesar's [sic] Palace, Las Vegas . . . with Oscar Zeta Acosta, who insists on being identified as Dr. Gonzo. Photo: Cashman Photo Enterprises, Inc.”

Possibly taken c. Mar-Apr. 1971, the photo was published on the back cover of the first edition of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, the book which celebrates being a nightmare tourist. There are no identifying features of Caesars Palace in the photo. If the caption is accurate, the "Baccarat Lounge" could be the Galleria Lounge located next to the Baccarat room, south of the main casino, as seen on a Caesars Palace property map from the late 60s.

Cashman Photo Enterprises, Inc. worked with Caesars Palace and hotels elsewhere in Las Vegas, Miami, and Hawaii, in the business of tourist photos. Cashman established photo labs at the hotels and offered fast 8x10 prints at a time when tourist did not carry their own cameras.

Caesars Palace property map c. '69

A Cashman photographer with guests at Caesars Palace, 1971. Cashman Photo.

Cashman photographers at Las Vegas Hilton. Cashman Photo.

Back cover of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (Random House, '72)

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John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands 1976

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Liberty St, Kansas City, Missouri.

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Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) & Kenny Baker R2D2 taking a break onset of "A New Hope" in 1976

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Albert Watson

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Untitled, 1995 by Raymond Pettibon

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James Joyce, (1922), Ulysses, Translation by Auguste Morel and Stuart Gilbert, Text revised by Valery Larbaud and James Joyce, Adrienne Monnier / La Maison des Amis des Livres, Paris, 1929