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likeafieldmouse:

Annie Leibovitz - Pilgrimage (2011) - Leibovitz’s documentation of the homes and traces of some of her favorite historical figures

1. Elvis Presley’s TV (Memphis, Tennessee)

2. Georgia O’Keeffe’s Pastels (Santa Fe, New Mexico)

3. The Gloves Worn by Abraham Lincoln on the Night of his Assassination (Springfield, Illinois)

4. Skeleton of a Pigeon Studied by Charles Darwin (Hertfordshire, England)

5. Ansel Adams’s Darkroom (Carmel, California)

6. Virginia Woolf’s Bedroom (Charleston, England)

7. Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

I got this book for my birthday. It is so gorgeous.

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gacougnol:

Pierre Soulages, Peinture 162x127cm, 14 avril 1979

gacougnol:

Pierre Soulages, Peinture 162x127cm, 14 avril 1979

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morphemes:

Shaun Tan from his book, The Arrival 

Such a beautiful book.

morphemes:

Shaun Tan
from his book, The Arrival 

Such a beautiful book.

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yama-bato:

Kawase Hasui
Title Evening Shower, Teradomari
Medium Original Japanese Woodblock Print

yama-bato:

Kawase Hasui

Title Evening Shower, Teradomari

Medium Original Japanese Woodblock Print

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magnolius:

‘melting men’ installation by Nele Azevedo

Brazilian Artist Nele Azevado carved 1,000 figures out of ice on the steps of Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt Square. It was made to raise awareness about the rising sea-levels due to to melting ice.

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sisterwolf:

Happiness Lost - Otto Theodore Gustav Lingner

sisterwolf:

Happiness Lost - Otto Theodore Gustav Lingner

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rerylikes:

Alain Séchas - Cascades, 2010 Pigment print
[via dailyartjournal, nearlya]

rerylikes:

Alain Séchas - Cascades, 2010 Pigment print

[via dailyartjournal, nearlya]

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"Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

— Kurt Vonnegut   (via philosophereyes)

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touba:

Photographs from Caleb Charland’s series Biographs, 2009.
“These pictures began by accident. I was curious to see what would happen if I allowed bacteria to grow on the surface of film. I was interested in relinquishing the control of image making to a natural process…As I proceeded with the experiment, I was amazed to see what the bacteria were doing. The bacterial growth patterns were re-depositing the image particles, revealing a life cycle traced in silver…What began as a photograph had become a biograph, a trace of life, an index of an existence.”
— Caleb Charland, from “About Biographs”

touba:

Photographs from Caleb Charland’s series Biographs, 2009.

“These pictures began by accident. I was curious to see what would happen if I allowed bacteria to grow on the surface of film. I was interested in relinquishing the control of image making to a natural process…As I proceeded with the experiment, I was amazed to see what the bacteria were doing. The bacterial growth patterns were re-depositing the image particles, revealing a life cycle traced in silver…What began as a photograph had become a biograph, a trace of life, an index of an existence.”

— Caleb Charland, from “About Biographs”