#vintage author

[aponii1]

Angela Davis and Toni Morrison in 1974

[ed13d1]

they call for me

tomosu #6013 • yamamoto masao, 2023

[emyofthevalley]

A small early 1900s summer home. 🕯️🪞

[frenchnewwaves]

bob dylan and james baldwin

[0thello]

The Birth of Venus (painting), 1863.

by Alexander Cabanel.

[yesterdaysprint]

Daphne Du Maurier with her father, Sir Reginald Du Maurier, Hampstead, 1925

[strawberrybaby444]

Fuck school I need to be a trophy wife , a cowgirl , a supermodel, a famous actress from the 60s , a nepobaby, a film director , a Disney princess , an author and a girlblogger

[questionableadvice]

~ New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, 1962

[laurachouettepoetry]

October creeps into the room

through faint grey light

that stopped dancing on the windowsill

since July left.

Being haunted by silence

makes the air grow weary

and faintly colder.

I hear the noise of people

walking in solitude,

thinking to themselves about others—

sitting alone in between their steps.

Company of ghosts on lonely eves,

threading through the rustling of leaves.

I can write down what haunts me,

yet I cannot read the ones who do.

October.

- Laura Chouette

[cleopatragirlie]

The cats of Jack Kerouac

[0bsessiv3s0ul]

Albert Camus.

[emyofthevalley]

A girl's things 🤍

[postcard-from-the-past]

"Madame Delait pruning roses"

She was a French bearded lady from Thaon-les-Vosges, Lorraine region of eastern France. She run a local pub with her husband in the town and used to shave regularly until 1900.

In 1901, she visited the carnival of Nancy with her husband and saw a bearded woman there. Upon returning to the town, one of the regulars in the pub offered her 500 Francs (roughly 5k USD in today's money) if she let her beard grow. Even though she never get the money, she kept the beard and renamed the pub to Le Café de La Femme à Barbe, "The café of the Bearded Woman".

She became a kind of celebrity, by selling postcards and photographs (in relatively feminine settings at the beginning, later she even got a special permission from the authorities to wear men's clothes at her leisure, which was illegal at the time). She also toured in Europe and became even more famous during WW1 when she joined the Red-Cross and became the mascot of the Poilu (French infantrymen with lower class background).

French vintage postcard, mailed in 1937 to Paris

[0thello]

“No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires too.”

Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark (2020).

[thevoyageout]

Letter from Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West

[vogu3s]

Kate Moss Tryptic 7th on Sale, 1995

Ph. Author Elgort