Georg Baselitz, Untitled, from Gothic Maidens, 1995
they have you crucified too,
America at work,
where they rip out your intestines
and your brain and your
will and your spirit.
they suck you dry, then throw
you away.
the capitalist system.
the work ethic.
the profit motive.
the memory of your father’s words,
“work hard and you’ll be
appreciated.”
of course, only if you make
much more for them than they pay
you.
—The Pleasures of the Damned - Charles Bukowski (via girlinlondon)
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Laurie Simmons, Walking Gun, 1991, Gelatin silver print
53 x 89 in. (134.6 x 226.1 cm)
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Garry Winogrand, Los Angeles, 1964
From the Getty Museum:
Most of Winogrand’s best pictures-let us say all of his best pictures-involve luck of a different order than that kind of minimal, survivor’s luck on which any human achievement depends.
-John Szarkowski in Winogrand: Figments from the Real World
Call it luck, call it circumstance, but when Garry Winogrand set out to photograph, his colleagues observed that surprising things would happen.
Winogrand noticed this odd couple in a parked convertible one night as he wandered Hollywood’s Sunset Strip. The man with the bandaged nose glances at his angry-looking female passenger. She seems to be ignoring him. The blurred motion of cars rushing past them underscores how fleeting this moment is.
Winogrand’s photograph captures Hollywood’s unique combination of glamour and seediness. It specifically calls to mind the dark narratives of film noir-the detective movies of the 1940s and ’50s that featured tough guys and femmes fatales. The narrative here is ambiguous, prompting questions as to why this man’s nose is bandaged and whether the couple is arguing.
Garry Winogrand, Utah, 1964
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Oldest known photograph of a tornado. South Dakota, 22 miles southwest of Howard. August 28, 1884 (by NOAA Photo Library)
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Parmigianino: A Turkish Slave (aka, Portrait of a Young Woman) (ca. 1533)
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