Saturday 28 March 2020

Eve Arnold (1912-2012)


Bar girl in a brothel in the red-light district. Havana, Cuba, 1954


RUSSIA. Cleaning up Lenin's statue for the fiftieth anniversary of the Revolution, in a village in the Kuban, 1966


Equestrian acrobats rehearsing. Mongolia, China, 1979


Marilyn Monroe during the filming of The Misfits. USA, 1960.


Silvana Mangano at the Museum of Modern Art. New York City, 1956


Contact Sheet Print: Joan Crawford, 1959

Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)

(by Frederick Henry Evans, 1894)







Susceptible by Geneviève Castrée

Absolutely loved this graphic novel - a coming of age story about trying to get through teenage years, dealing with having been brought up under less than ideal circumstances with parents who drink and take drugs, and forming a life of your own in adulthood. Missing Montreal too during this time of global uncertainty and lockdown...