Marina Benjamin, Insomnia

Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006)

Cross-section (1943)

Teapot (1976)

Straws (1930)

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe

Lloyd Ziff’s Desire

Photography © Lloyd Ziff

See more info and images from Smith and Mapplethrope's first shoot together. 

Ilse Bing's use of repetition and pattern

The Follies of Richard Wadsworth by Nick Maandag

Drawn & Quarterly <3

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

"How easy life is, I thought, for women who are not afraid of a man. I stared for a long time at my face in the mirror. It had never been very pretty, and now it seemed to me that every trace of youth and freshness was gone."

- Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart (1947)