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Dustin Hoffman on the set of Marathon Man directed by John Schlesinger, 1976. Photo by Mary Ellen Mark.

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“The beginnings of art are being continually pushed back in time. Sculpted rocks just discovered at Kununurra in Australia may date back seventy-five thousand years. The paintings of horses, rhinoceros, ibex, mammoths, lions, bears, bison, panthers, reindeer, aurochs, and an owl, found in 1994 in the Chauvet Cave in the French Ardèche, are probably fifteen thousand years older than those found in the Lascaux caves! The time separating us from these artists is at least twelve times longer than the time separating us from the pre-Socratic philosophers. What makes their age astounding is the sensitivity of perception they reveal. The thrust of an animal’s neck or the set of its mouth or the energy of its haunches were observed and recreated with a nervousness and control comparable to what we find in the works of a Fra Lippo Lippi, a Velázquez, or a Brancusi. Apparently art did not begin clumsily. The eyes and hands of the first painters and engravers were as fine as any that came later. There was a grace from the start. This is the mystery, isn’t it?”

— John Berger, Portraits (I: The Chauvet Cave Painters)

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Is a waterfall alive?

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Fanny Howe

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Nan Goldin

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Diddy by Tina Barney

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Believe it or not, this is house.  

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There seems to be some problem about my identity. But no one can find it, because it’s not there - I have lost all interest in having a self. Being a person has always meant getting blamed for it.

Rachel Cusk, The New Yorker (via elizabethellenfastmachine)

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Hands holding flowers by @subwayhands on Instagram

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Bryan Singer’s Dream Pool Party (1991), by Tom Bianchi

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Mario Sorrenti

Vogue Paris November 2002

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I am afraid to own a Body —

Emily Dickinson, from I am afraid to own a Body. (via megairea)

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Resourceful #streetphotography (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsWII_5nofV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6ey8sq3erzuh