August Sander – Church of St. Ursula, Cologne, 1945-46 (via)
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Bricklayer’s Mate
August Sander, Bricklayer’s Mate (Germany, 1928). (via)
11.22.63
November 22nd, 1963: President Kennedy reaches out to the crowd gathered at the Hotel Texas Parking Lot Rally in Fort Worth, Texas. (Cecil Stoughton, White House / John F. Kennedy Library) (via)
Boston, February 1944
Photo by Walter Sanders for Life Magazine.
Fly
Magnified 10 times, a view of Dolichopodid sp. (fly) eyes made by Laurie Knight of Tonbridge, Kent, UK.
“The Nikon International Small World Photomicrography Competition recently announced its list of winners for 2010. The competition began in 1974 as a means to recognize and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography through the light microscope.” (via)
Five Fingers of Death
Five Fingers of Death (1972). This poster hung in Jacob Barber’s bedroom.
Chuck Close: Inspiration is for amateurs
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
Chuck Close (via)
The true size of Africa
Africa is larger than the U.S., China, India, Japan, and all of Europe combined. Via (click to view full size).