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Herbert James Draper

Sat, 25 May 2013 05:05:10 -0400

Herbert James Draper

spring1999: Volt Café, “East Side”, Shenyue photographed...

Sat, 25 May 2013 05:04:54 -0400

spring1999:

Volt Café, “East Side”, Shenyue photographed by Ruth Ginika Ossai

the-science-llama: Reflection and Emission Nebulas— Rho...

Sat, 25 May 2013 05:04:21 -0400

the-science-llama:

Reflection and Emission Nebulas
— Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex

Credit: Gerald Rhemann // Astrostudio

Took this around nine years ago and is still my favorite. (at...

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:19:17 -0400

Took this around nine years ago and is still my favorite. (at Cleveland Public Library - Main Branch)

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Sat, 25 May 2013 01:24:28 -0400

blackfashion: quixon: seahchel: gizelle-lewinskyxxx: hypeshad...

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:43:59 -0400

blackfashion:

quixon:

seahchel:

gizelle-lewinskyxxx:

hypeshade:

Just sayin’

Remember when J.Lo was super hyped and Bey obsessed with her back in the 00s

=/

oop

LMAO YAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSS

but Beyonce did it better

pretaportre: January Jones in ‘Why, Miss Jones’ by Kurt...

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:30:02 -0400

pretaportre:

January Jones in ‘Why, Miss Jones’ by Kurt Iswarienko for Net-A-Porter, May 2013.

(via visualoptimism)

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5centsapound: Maïmouna Patrizia Guerresi As a photographer,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:32:12 -0400

5centsapound:

Maïmouna Patrizia Guerresi

As a photographer, sculptor, and installation artist, ‘Maïmouna’ Patrizia Guerresi reveals unique and authentic sensibilities in her narration of the beauty and subtleties of racial diversity and multiculturalism. Over an established career, she has developed her own symbolism, which combines cosmological and ancestral traditions belonging to various European, African, and Asian cultures. Her personal commitment to Baifall Sufism has led her to produce an aesthetic that is able to bridge time, space and civilisations, as well as figuration and abstraction.

The human body is seen as the nucleus and temple of the soul, a place that houses a delicate, higher awareness; the very conduit for encompassing natural and cosmic forces. More about mysticism than any singular religion, her work is visionary in that it restores those elusive qualities of sacredness and unity in our frequently dehumanising and fragmented contemporary visual world. Her classic iconographic style explores the universality of human experience and reclaims the often hidden nurturing powers of feminine energy. Presented as a kind of free flowing epic, the viewer is left to read the significance of her imagery and quietly meditate on its potential to personally engage with its audience. As if her figures were speaking directly to each one of us.

From her earliest experiments with the physicality and archetypal imprinting of the psyche, through to her latest, evermore metaphoric ‘inner constellations’, Maïmouna insists on a cross-cultural discourse and an expansion of the boundaries that normally dictate our individual attitudes. She invites us to see further and to look deeper – past skin colour, preconceptions, and ethnic landscapes – into the wider paradigm of inclusion. She leads us through apparently simple notions of dimensionality into the exquisite, mystical and fragile complexities of life from within. - Rosa Maria Falvo,