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sounds of ice melting, paul kos, 1970
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Bruno Taut
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“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.” Guy Debord 1981
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Fischli & Weiss
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Fischli & Weiss
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josef albers
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R. Crumb
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Something is always moving, Maryanne Casasanta
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Sally Mann
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Maryanne Casasanta - Spectrum Spot (as you were)
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I was asked to contribute a playlist to my friend Peter’s comprehensive and awesome music blog, Murder, she Podcasted.
Mellow nap or make out music. Please enjoy.
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Leaving the birthdays for a bit:
Marcel Duchamp showed off his glorious fur coat in this photo last year - taken aboard the Paris, 1927
Above: Another shot from the same session, shot by an unknown photographer - cropped by me… (Source: Library of Congress)
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Amelia Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Earhart joined the faculty of the world-famous Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the National Woman’s Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Lee Miller: From the Top of the Great Pyramid, 1937
“In 1934, she abandoned her studio to marry Egyptian businessman, Aziz Eloui Bey, who had come to New York to buy equipment for the Egyptian Railways. Although she did not work as a professional photographer during this period, the photographs she took while living in Egypt with Eloui, including “Portrait of Space”, are regarded as some of her most striking surrealist images. By 1937, Lee had grown bored with her life in Cairo and she returned to Paris, where she met her future husband, the British surrealist painter and curator Roland Penrose.” (Wiki)
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Homey with an Owl, 1983
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Dame Jane Goodall bonds with Flint, a chimpanzee born in her camp at Gombe, Tanzania. Flint was the first infant chimp whose development Goodall was able to follow up close until his death in 1968.
Photographed by her then-husband Baron Hugo van Lawick.
[via Iconic Photos]
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Crystal K. D. Huie (b. April 19, 1941): Chanton Road in Little Rock, Arkansas , 1972 - gelatin silver print (Smithsonian)
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Andrea Fraser’s brand of performance during the 1990s popularized the institutional critique art movement, a loosely-formed artistic practice meant to critique the very institutions that are involved in the sale, display, and commerce of art. Fraser’s work typically comments on the politics, commerce, histories, and even the self-assuredness of the modern-day art museum, including the hierarchies and the exclusion mechanisms of art as an enterprise.
Arguably Fraser’s most famous performance, Museum Highlights involved Fraser posing as a Museum tour guide at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1989 under the pseudonym of Jane Castleton. During the performance, Fraser led a tour through the museum describing it in verbose and overly dramatic terms to her chagrined tour group. For example, in describing a common water fountain Fraser proclaims “a work of astonishing economy and monumentality … it boldly contrasts with the severe and highly stylized productions of this form!” Upon entering the museum cafeteria: “This room represents the heyday of colonial art in Philadelphia on the eve of the Revolution, and must be regarded as one of the very finest of all American rooms.”
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Imogen Cunningham:
John Bovington 2, 1929 - gelatin silver print (Source)
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Cindy Sherman, The Bus Riders 1976
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Herbert Bayer
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“The Naked City” - Situationist International
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an immaterial survey of our peers is now on view
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Survival Kit 2010 - Maryanne Casasanta
