Elsa Dax

30 06 2017

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we shoulda killed all the witnesses…

30 06 2017

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we shoulda killed all the witnesses..by David Halliday

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František Drtikol

30 06 2017

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Has anyone photographed the female form. So oddly. As if she were a hood ornament.

From 1907 to 1910 he had his own studio, until 1935 he operated an important portrait photostudio in Prague on the fourth floor of one of Prague’s remarkable buildings, a Baroque corner house at 9 Vodičkova, now demolished. Jaroslav Rössler, an important avant-garde photographer, was one of his pupils. Drtikol made many portraits of very important people and nudes which show development from pictorialism and symbolism to modern composite pictures of the nude body with geometric decorations and thrown shadows, where it is possible to find a number of parallels with the avant-garde works of the period. These are reminiscent of Cubism, and at the same time his nudes suggest the kind of movement that was characteristic of the futurism aesthetic.

He began using paper cut-outs in a period he called “photopurism”. These photographs resembled…

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the lies we tell ourselves

30 06 2017

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the lies we tell ourselvesby David Halliday

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the death of Marleau in the River Thames

30 06 2017

The Death of Marleau in the River Thames


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Ralph Fasanella

30 06 2017

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Fasanella served two stints in reform schools run by the Catholic Church for truancy and running away from home. He later said he was sexually abused (“used as a girl”) by the priests.[2] These experiences instilled a deep dislike for authority and reinforced Fasanella’s hatred for anything which broke people’s spirits. Fasanella later depicted his experience in reform school in a painting titled Lineup at the Protectory 2 (1961). The melancholy image features rows of boys standing at attention, watched over by scowling, ominous-looking priests. Fasanella quit school after the sixth grade.

During the Great Depression, Fasanella worked as a textile worker in garment factories and as a truck driver. He became a member of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) Local 1227 while working as a machinist in Brooklyn. He became strongly aware of the growing economic and social injustice in the U.S., as well…

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Fox News reports: Micro-waves are spying on American citizens

30 06 2017

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Fox News reports Micro-wave ovens are spying on American citizensby David Halliday

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