Cindy Sherman

"I wouldn’t think I would have to call myself a feminist, because I think it’s redundant to be a woman and call yourself a feminist."

Cindy Sherman, 1999 (via welovecindysherman)(Source: barnesandnoble.com)

Beautiful...

so beautiful…

I love this still so much. the distinct type of depth to the image reminds me of one of my favorite photography books OF ALL TIME by Thomas Allen . The precision and the fullness of this frame and the following are so captivating.  (of course Allen’s is a much more tedious process…he uses old pulp book covers with a conventional 4”x5” film camera and manually manipulates all lighting, focus, and “cast”. it’s brilliant).The expressions on these character’s faces convey just as much as the ones in Allen’s work. The wonderful thing is that in the book covers someone was able to create exactly what they wanted those people to be conveying at that precise moment. All of the elements that make this still image so engrossing take a lot of planning as well, but also just a little bit of magic that collaboration can bring… 

oldhollywood:

Marilyn Monroe & Eli Wallach in The Misfits (1961, dir. John Huston) (via)

Photo by Erich Hartmann.

Botanical Garden

YES!!

reclaimingm:

World’s largest flower. It’s called the corpse flower. When it opens it smells like rotten human flesh. Set to bloom anytime in the next 3 days.

The Missouri botanical Gardens really are the best.

Taxi Driver

Photo reblogged from Trash Kozel

dash7:

(via Robert De Niro’s Taxicab License, 1975 | Retronaut)

Wrong side of history...

Photo reblogged from SELF EVIDENT TRUTHS BLOG

selfevidentproject:

pretty much says it all…

(Source: revelandrioton)

Film Poster Art

Photoset reblogged from Old Hollywood

oldhollywood:

Poster art: Batiste Madalena edition (via)

Up until the 1950s, many movie theaters rejected the mass-produced, lithographed film posters designed and distributed by Hollywood studios in favor of original, hand-painted posters created by local artists. 

During the 1920s, Batiste Madalena was the resident artist at the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, NY., where he designed and hand-painted about eight original posters per week. Madalena, who is considered the greatest poster painter of the period, was given full artistic control, with the only directive from his boss being that the posters had to be clearly visible to passengers on passing trolley cars.

More examples of Madalena’s work here.

Oh Jennifer Beals...

this just makes her even more awesome than I thought!

selfevidentproject:

Who knew Jennifer Beals took photos!? Click to enlarge.