bits&bites

ladies with cameras,thanks to liquidnight: Martine Franck - Sarah Moon during the photographing of her book Little Red Riding Hood, Entrepôt de Bercy, Paris, France, 1983

From Martine Franck: One Day to the Next

Josef Fenneker ~Carnival at Marmorhaus, Berlin c.1920 via Susanlenox

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:25:00 +0900

Josef Fenneker ~Carnival at Marmorhaus, Berlin c.1920

via Susanlenox

not really silent,but still;] frenchtwist: Poets … shed not only the red blood of their hearts but the white blood of their souls. ~ Jean Cocteau Film still from The Blood of a Poet with an accompanying essay by Cocteau at the page.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:03:00 +0900

not really silent,but still;]

frenchtwist: Poets … shed not only the red blood of their hearts but the white blood of their souls. ~ Jean Cocteau

Film still from The Blood of a Poet with an accompanying essay by Cocteau at the page.

The Fall of the House of Usher James Sibley & Watson Melville Webber, 1928 via Brandon’s movie memory

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:50:00 +0900

The Fall of the House of Usher

James Sibley & Watson
Melville Webber, 1928

via Brandon’s movie memory

Fantômas,Louis Feuillade, 1913 via etc-iste

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:21:00 +0900

Fantômas,Louis Feuillade, 1913

via etc-iste

Ruth St. Denis and Denishawn dancers in Yoga meditation,1915

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:54:55 +0900

Ruth St. Denis and Denishawn dancers in Yoga meditation,1915

Vintage dancer via vvitch

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:40:26 +0900

Vintage dancer

via vvitch

Yva [Elsa Neuländer-Simon] Die schauspielerin Herta Schroeter mit saxofon bei einem berliner kostümfest. 1928. [also] via maultasch_a

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:27:00 +0900

Yva [Elsa Neuländer-Simon]

Die schauspielerin Herta Schroeter mit saxofon bei einem berliner kostümfest. 1928.

[also]

via maultasch_a

The goddess of flight, 1921 [Eyre Powell Press Service] From the Library of Congress via bobster

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:08:48 +0900

The goddess of flight, 1921

[Eyre Powell Press Service]

From the Library of Congress

via bobster

etc-iste: La fête [thanks to membrane]

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:52:13 +0900

etc-iste: La fête

[thanks to membrane]

One more for Monday Dali:Dream of Venus Exhibition at NY World’s Fair, 1939 [previously;] via mica12244art

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:09:00 +0900

One more for Monday Dali:Dream of Venus Exhibition at NY World’s Fair, 1939

[previously;]

via mica12244art

Georges Barbier ~Chez la Marchande de Pasots via mica12244art

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:45:04 +0900

Georges Barbier ~Chez la Marchande de Pasots

via mica12244art

more Anita Berber thanks to touba

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:37:43 +0900

more Anita Berber

thanks to touba

Anna Belle Grey [trick photograph,c.1901] from The Library of Congress via bobster

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:09:53 +0900

Anna Belle Grey [trick photograph,c.1901]

from The Library of Congress

via bobster

Vampyr dance,postcard via Alysian Fields [i hope you don’t mind,love your decadenthandbook place but your tumblr is too much,hm, random for my taste;]

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:36:00 +0900

Vampyr dance,postcard

via Alysian Fields

[i hope you don’t mind,love your decadenthandbook place but your tumblr is too much,hm, random for my taste;]

Calle Cuauhtemoctzin, Mexico City | Henri Cartier-Bresson ,1934 para findout,she probably knows where this is;] from bit forgotten so30s

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:14:00 +0900

Calle Cuauhtemoctzin, Mexico City | Henri Cartier-Bresson ,1934

para findout,she probably knows where this is;]

from bit forgotten so30s

and Sir Cecil Beaton himself;] from lotus_feet @ ruguru

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:45:20 +0900

and Sir Cecil Beaton himself;]

from lotus_feet @ ruguru

Monday Dali by Cecil Beaton,1936

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:02:21 +0900

Monday Dali by Cecil Beaton,1936

almost forgot,it’s time for Monday Dali! Face of Mae West [which can be used as apartment;] 1934-35 via facweb.cs

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:12:43 +0900

almost forgot,it’s time for Monday Dali!

Face of Mae West [which can be used as apartment;] 1934-35

via facweb.cs

L’Age d’Or,1930, Luis Bunuel

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:29:39 +0900

L’Age d’Or,1930, Luis Bunuel

after some digging,i finally found some credit for this one [no offense girls and boyz] it’s from Alexandr Medvedkin’s 1934 movie Happiness [image found here,english review here] frenchtwist:via akubizone:via snowce

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:20:07 +0900

after some digging,i finally found some credit for this one [no offense girls and boyz]

it’s from Alexandr Medvedkin’s 1934 movie Happiness

[image found here,english review here]

frenchtwist:via akubizone:via snowce

liquidnight:Max Ernst - Illustration from Une semaine de bonté [A Week of Kindness or The Seven Deadly Elements] - Troisième cahier [Book Three] - ) Mardi [Tuesday] - Le Feu [Fire]

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:42:01 +0900

liquidnight:Max Ernst - Illustration from Une semaine de bonté [A Week of Kindness or The Seven Deadly Elements] - Troisième cahier [Book Three] - ) Mardi [Tuesday] - Le Feu [Fire]

Leon Spilliaert~The Absinthe Drinker

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:30:17 +0900

Leon Spilliaert~The Absinthe Drinker

Mariette Lydis ~Un cheval de race, 1948 [ illustration for Les Fleurs du Mal] She is quite ugly. She is delightful, nevertheless! Time and Love have thus marked with their claws and have cruelly taught her what each minute and each embrace take from both innocence and youth. She is indeed ugly. She is, for me, an ant, a spider, if you like a skeleton even; she is also refreshing, bewitching, quintessential! In short, she is exquisite. Time could not break the sparkling harmony of her gait, nor the indestructible elegance of her frame. Love spoilt none of the sweetness of her breath, and Time combed nothing from her mane where arose in tawny fragrances all the frenzied vitality of the south of ancient France: Nîmes, Aix, Arles, Avignon, Toulouse, cities blessed by the sun, lovely and charming! Time and Love have vainly bit her with beautiful teeth; they have diminished none of the vague yet eternal charm of her boyish breast. Worn-out perhaps, but not tired, and always the heroine, she reminds us of those thoroughbred horses that the eye of a true lover recognizes, even when hitched to a hired coach or to a heavy wagon. And then she is so sweet and so fervent! She loves as one loves in the fall. One might say that the approach of winter lights in her heart a fire anew, and the servility of her tenderness is never reason to falter. [translation from here,original here] via Adventures In The Print Trade

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:36:00 +0900

Mariette Lydis ~Un cheval de race, 1948

[ illustration for Les Fleurs du Mal]

She is quite ugly. She is delightful, nevertheless! Time and Love have thus marked with their claws and have cruelly taught her what each minute and each embrace take from both innocence and youth.

She is indeed ugly. She is, for me, an ant, a spider, if you like a skeleton even; she is also refreshing, bewitching, quintessential! In short, she is exquisite.

Time could not break the sparkling harmony of her gait, nor the indestructible elegance of her frame. Love spoilt none of the sweetness of her breath, and Time combed nothing from her mane where arose in tawny fragrances all the frenzied vitality of the south of ancient France: Nîmes, Aix, Arles, Avignon, Toulouse, cities blessed by the sun, lovely and charming!

Time and Love have vainly bit her with beautiful teeth; they have diminished none of the vague yet eternal charm of her boyish breast.

Worn-out perhaps, but not tired, and always the heroine, she reminds us of those thoroughbred horses that the eye of a true lover recognizes, even when hitched to a hired coach or to a heavy wagon.

And then she is so sweet and so fervent! She loves as one loves in the fall. One might say that the approach of winter lights in her heart a fire anew, and the servility of her tenderness is never reason to falter.

[translation from here,original here]

via Adventures In The Print Trade