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artistandstudio: Claude Monet standing with water lilies, Giverny, c. 1920. Photo by Etienne Clémentel.    Musee d’Orsay

artistandstudio:

Claude Monet standing with water lilies, Giverny, c. 1920. Photo by Etienne Clémentel.    Musee d’Orsay

artistandstudio: Edgar Degas, c. 1860. Photo by Joseph Tourin. Musee d’Orsay

artistandstudio:

Edgar Degas, c. 1860. Photo by Joseph Tourin. Musee d’Orsay

apoetreflects: “Our unquenchable thirst for all that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the liveliest proof of our immortality. It is both by poetry and through poetry, by music and through music, that the soul dimly descries the splendours beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings tears to our eyes, those tears are not a proof of overabundant joy: they bear witness rather to an impatient melancholy, a clamant demand by our nerves, our nature, exiled in imperfection, which would fain enter into immediate possession, while still on this earth, of a revealed paradise.” —Charles Baudelaire, from Selected Writings on Art and Literature (Penguin Classics, 1993)

apoetreflects:

“Our unquenchable thirst for all that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the liveliest proof of our immortality. It is both by poetry and through poetry, by music and through music, that the soul dimly descries the splendours beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings tears to our eyes, those tears are not a proof of overabundant joy: they bear witness rather to an impatient melancholy, a clamant demand by our nerves, our nature, exiled in imperfection, which would fain enter into immediate possession, while still on this earth, of a revealed paradise.”

—Charles Baudelaire, from Selected Writings on Art and Literature (Penguin Classics, 1993)

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maudelynn: Hope Hampton and Monte Blue in a promo for a lost silent film (I have tried to sort the name of the film, but cannot seem to find a title that they were both in! Any ideas?)

maudelynn:

Hope Hampton and Monte Blue in a promo for a lost silent film

(I have tried to sort the name of the film, but cannot seem to find a title that they were both in! Any ideas?)

maudelynn: “Roller Skating for Youthful Spirits” A lovely Chicago Roller Skate Co postcard c.1940

maudelynn:

“Roller Skating for Youthful Spirits”

A lovely Chicago Roller Skate Co postcard c.1940

thetrevorproject: Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.

thetrevorproject:

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.

maudelynn: Antoine Hugo holding up Adriens, a well-known circus performer, and his sister Marguerite.

maudelynn:

Antoine Hugo holding up Adriens, a well-known circus performer, and his sister Marguerite.

smithsonianmag: Boy and dog playing in Chapala Lake. Victor Hugo Casillas Romo (Zapopan, Mexico) Photographed June 2011, Jocotepec, Jalisco, Mexico

smithsonianmag:

Boy and dog playing in Chapala Lake.
Victor Hugo Casillas Romo (Zapopan, Mexico)
Photographed June 2011, Jocotepec, Jalisco, Mexico

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life: The Alice Austen House needs you! Alice Austen, one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers broke away from the constraints of the Victorian era to create her own life. Her home, located in Staten Island, now serves as a museum dedicated to her work and life. The Alice Austen House Museum is up for the 2012 Partners in Preservation grant — a grant that will allow the museum to help preserve a very important part of the history of photography. Every vote counts. Pictured above, Alfred Eisenstaedt pushes photographer Alice Austen in a wheelchair, Staten Island, New York, in 1951, one year before Austen died.

life:

The Alice Austen House needs you!

Alice Austen, one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers broke away from the constraints of the Victorian era to create her own life. Her home, located in Staten Island, now serves as a museum dedicated to her work and life. The Alice Austen House Museum is up for the 2012 Partners in Preservation grant — a grant that will allow the museum to help preserve a very important part of the history of photography.

Every vote counts. Pictured above, Alfred Eisenstaedt pushes photographer Alice Austen in a wheelchair, Staten Island, New York, in 1951, one year before Austen died.