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  another one of my Italian heros

  i12bent:

  One of most playful postmodern writers, Italo Calvino, was born on Oct. 15, 1923 (d. 1985). Often his novels take the form of convoluted, self-referential metafictions. He was obsessed with the Tarot, and used the cards as a story machine…

  “Don’t be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sight of it. The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust.” ― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

  Photo: Silvio Durante - Calvino in his Torino apartment, 1954

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  liquidnight:

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Pilgrim State Hospital, 1936

  [From the LIFE magazine Photo Archive]

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  my biggest hero - Pasolini, ti amo!

  initialslf:

  Pier Paolo Pasolini (Fabio Mauri, “Intellettuale”)

  Photo: Antonio Masotti

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  mpdrolet:

  From  Dennis Hopper:Photographs: 1961-1967

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  hauntedwoods:

  John Baldessari at Sprueth Magers

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  mauvedeep:

  Donald Dudley

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  smeadows:

  The Rothko Chapel in Houston

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  mpdrolet:

  Kristopher Keith Helton

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  mpdrolet:

  Amanda Mapuma, Vredehoek, Cape Town, 2011

  Zanele Muholi
  

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  Muholi shows 66 new portraits in this ongoing series which offers an insider’s perspective on the lives of the black lesbians and transmen she has met on her journeys as an activist. Collectively, the portraits are at once a visual statement and an archive: marking, mapping and preserving an often invisible community for posterity.

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  rusaman:

  Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Arch, 1977

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  rusaman:

  L O L I T A - top 3

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  rusaman:

  milica balubdzic

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  mpdrolet:

  Promotion at Bill McDavid Pontiac Co., 1959

  Bill Wood

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  rusaman:

  Richard Avedon, Vogue, UK.

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  small update

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  artspotting:

  Harpoon head, Lazaroosee Akspaliak, 1975, The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art by Jean Blodgett, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 1978 via stopping off place

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  mpdrolet:

  Striking worker leaning on “Under Paid” sign, 1966

  William Gedney

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  mpdrolet:

  Willy Ronnis

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  initialslf:

  Luciano Fabro, Il cubo, 1966

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  camerongeorgelee:

  Fillipio Ferruccio

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  artlistpro:

  Paul Virilio via unequal-design:

  viafrank: via Nickelson Wooster

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  -outlying-:

  Trisha Brown, Woman Walking Down a Ladder, 1973