#American Elegance

[crownedstoat]

Survived the Depression and WWII and now we are living in the future.

[crownedstoat]

The future is now!

A blog filled with vintage cars, hot rods, and kustoms

[arc-hus]

Desert Palisades House, Palm Springs, USA - Woods + Dangaran

[the-minesweeper-god]

"I lost the money, lost the keys, but I'm still handcuffed to the briefcase."

American Sports by Arctic Monkeys

[joannkennedy]

Joan Kennedy photographed making calls from Hyannis Port on Election night, 1960.

[crownedstoat]

Cadillac

[automotivealchemy]

Dodge Viper SRT-E All Electric Supercar Concept

[mrskennedy]

John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy attend a welcoming ceremony in Washington D.C. for Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie on October 1st, 1963.

[leeradziwilll]

Princess Lee Radziwill

[crownedstoat]

Classic Cadillac

[art-portraits]

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Artist: Robert Henri (American, 1865–1929)

Date: 1916

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum, commissioned this portrait in 1916 from Robert Henri, leader of the urban realist painters who had shocked the New York art world barely a decade earlier with their images of ordinary people and commonplace city life. By 1916, Mrs. Whitney, a professional sculptor, had founded the Whitney Studio in Greenwich Village, a lively center for the support and exhibition of new American art. When Henri’s portrait was finished, Mrs. Whitney’s husband, Harry Payne Whitney, refused to allow her to hang it in their opulent Fifth Avenue town house. He didn’t want his friends to see a picture of his wife, as he put it, "in pants." Mrs. Whitney’s attire and self-possessed demeanor were highly unusual for a well-bred woman of her day. In this painting, Henri transformed the traditional genre of a recumbent female—usually a nude courtesan or the goddess Venus—into a portrait of the quintessential "modern" woman. The portrait hung in Whitney’s West 8th Street studio, which in 1931 became the first home of the Whitney Museum.

[crownedstoat]

LaGuardia Marine Terminal, Pan American Airways base. In NYC. Boeing 314 at the pier.

[carolynbkennedy]

[crownedstoat]

Cord 810

[child-of-hurin]

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I DO get this post and I think many interesting things HAVE BEEN done with this concept, and it can be explored,

but there is something so fundamentally western about this post because cannibalism was and is one of the top 3 excuses for colonialism!! The very real and varied forms of exocannibalism and endocannibalism practices by the natives of the Americas was, and still is, the easiest route to dehumanize them and justify the atrocities committed against them!

Cannibalism is a powerful western taboo and I get the appeal of using it as a metaphor to talk about other taboos, and I do think such an approach could be done successfully and with nuance, and maybe I'm being unfair to a one-sentence post -- but oh the way this comes across in the context of the actual, real life history! The inescapability of discussing colonialism always on the moral playing field of the colonizers! What does signalizing the monstrosity of colonialism through cannibalism say about the colonized who ate, indeed, the flesh of other men?

[celluloidrainbow]

PIER KIDS (2019) dir. Elegance Bratton The lives of Black, homeless queer and trans youth who call the Christopher Street Pier in NYC their home. Filmed over five years, taking place mainly in 2011, 2012, and three years later in 2016. The youth are interviewed over these years to show how time and experience changes, shinning a light on how queer people of color utilize spaces to create a chosen family, as well as highlighting the police presence in a community that relies on sex work for their main form of income. (link in title)