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Photograph by David Bailey
Robert Mapplethorpe, London (1980)
RM experimented with Polaroids, including a 20″ x 24″ format, and Bailey’s shot is a mise en abyme à la Guy Bourdin (intentionally or otherwise). RM holds a still-developing Polaroid of himself freshly shot by Bailey.
“Don’t Look Now”: The soulless imp and self-proclaimed clairvoyant scuttles and seethes around the glass of my account.
Photograph by Max Dupain
“Untitled (Nude—head & shoulders diagonal)”
Sydney, Australia (circa 1930s)
Published in “Portfolio No. 4: The female form” (1982)
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Photograph by Bert Garai
Ceil Pecora, “Rest Period”, New York (May 3, 1946)
CP, here lunching on an ice cream soda, was a Graflex Speed Graphic-wielding photographer employed by Lou Walters’ Latin Quarter club. She sold photographs for $1. ABC’s Barbara Walters was Lou’s scion.
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Rickie Lee Jones: “A Lucky Guy”
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Photograph by Heinrich Heidersberger
Braunschweig, Germany
From the “Kleid aus Licht” [Dress Made of Light] editorial in Stern (November 1949)
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🐈The mangy cur whose snout is perpetually pressed to the glass of my account cannot withstand my panoptic gaze.
Photograph by Heinrich Heidersberger
Braunschweig, Germany
From the “Kleid aus Licht” [Dress Made of Light] editorial in Stern (November 1949)
He engineered a “Lichtkanone” [light cannon] to beam patterns on nudes, saying facetiously it was a “money-saving clothing alternative”.
🐈I love you, Hoho. I miss your urgent pleading to ride on my shoulder, along with your indomitable will that it be my left. My grief is ceaseless, as was the love you gave in abundance.♥️
































