modernartists

Jan 30

musikdirne:

Erwin Blumenfeld, Self-Portrait in the Studio (9 rue Delambre), Paris, 1937

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Dec 30

palmofmyhands:

Cyrus Kabiru

Nov 22

labrancaro:

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE - John Loengard

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Feb 3

proustitute:

Egon Schiele in 1915; photographer unknown.

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Jan 13

Jan 3

jbe200:

reaktorplayer:

giorney:

Walt Disney, 1939

Nov 27

trixietreats:

“I’m afraid of power. It makes me nervous. In real life, I identify with the victim. That’s why I went into art.” ~Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois at the Académie de la Grande-Chaumiére, Paris, 1937

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Nov 25

marksjo:

The Radiant Child

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René Magritte, Coming and Going by Duane Michals, 1965

René Magritte, Coming and Going by Duane Michals, 1965

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Nov 17

Nobuyoshi ArakiBorn in 1940 to parents who ran a shitamachi geta (sandals) shop in Tokyo, Nobuyoshi Araki entered Chiba University in 1959, where he majored in photography and cinema. Around his time of graduation, he received the Taiyo prize for Satchin (Tokyo, 1964), a photographic series titled after a nickname for a little girl. After graduating in 1963, Araki took a position as an advertising photographer at Dentsu Inc., a major advertising company, where he met and married his co-worker Yoko in 1971. Araki works mainly in Tokyo, where he is often seen walking around the city, constantly taking photographs. Araki uses a range of cameras, such as a small, point-and-shoot or a larger-format, tripod-mounted camera, in order to explore various themes that exist within his city of Tokyo. Such themes include the connections between love, sex, industry, nature, chaos and emptiness.
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Nobuyoshi Araki

Born in 1940 to parents who ran a shitamachi geta (sandals) shop in Tokyo, Nobuyoshi Araki entered Chiba University in 1959, where he majored in photography and cinema. Around his time of graduation, he received the Taiyo prize for Satchin (Tokyo, 1964), a photographic series titled after a nickname for a little girl. After graduating in 1963, Araki took a position as an advertising photographer at Dentsu Inc., a major advertising company, where he met and married his co-worker Yoko in 1971.

Araki works mainly in Tokyo, where he is often seen walking around the city, constantly taking photographs. Araki uses a range of cameras, such as a small, point-and-shoot or a larger-format, tripod-mounted camera, in order to explore various themes that exist within his city of Tokyo. Such themes include the connections between love, sex, industry, nature, chaos and emptiness.

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