#WaterWednesday

Simple is beautiful.

Depuis le bus, New York, 1958 - Robert Frank, photographe suisse-américain (1924–2019), célèbre pour son livre "Les Américains" (1958), qui a révolutionné la photographie documentaire par son regard brut et poétique sur la société américaine.
#photographie
#RobertFrank

“When spring comes to Paris, the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.”

Henry Miller, “Tropic of Cancer” 1934.

ph. Robert Doisneau, Café de Flore, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris.

Joe Alper, Miles Davis, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, 1963.

🍸 , red lip and Smokey. #oilpainting #art

I've said this before, but it's worth repeating:

Every time you think you've seen director Jacques Tourneur's OUT OF THE PAST (1947) too many times . . . every single frame pulls you back in as if you've never seen it before.

Cinematography by Nicholas Musuraca

One Battle After Another (2025)
dir: Paul Thomas Anderson

Thien Hau Temple, Chinatown, Los Angeles, California

#photography #sightseeing #Mazu #folkreligion

Before #WOMENSHISTORYMONTH comes to a close, resharing my spotlight on unsung classic Black female artists; #filmmakers, #actors, #writers, #directors, #entertainers, #singers, pioneers in the history of the arts.

Read my complete essay on these women: dominiquerevue.weebly.com/womens-histo...

♡

Stephan Popowsky

Eve Arnold, 1977

Sunflower head up close

And then I feel the sun itself
as it blazes over the hills,
like a million flowers on fire
- Mary Oliver
#flower #sunflower #nature #photography #macrophotography

#UnjourUnephoto #nature #photography

Frémissements

A thistle placed on the yellow floral-patterned velvet of an antique chair to prevent visitors from sitting on it

#PalacesAndGardens
#UnexpectedEncounters
#UnusualEncounters
#YellowThu
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersofBlueSky

Veo animation of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) quad.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof •
Famous scene where Maggie presses while Brick simply smolders with barely disguised contempt. Who could be expected to play these characters after these two?
youtu.be/l0ViPCmr318?...

📷️Nikon Zf
📸PORST COLOR REFLEX MC AUTO 55mm F1.2
#photography #fotografía #Nikon #Zf

A color photo of a slim branch hanging down with many pink and white blossoms and small green leaves. The light is soft from an overcast and rainy day. Photo by me on my Android camera phone

sweet crabapple blossoms

A black and white photo of a flower with many long petals. The edges of the flower fade to black. Photo by me

"Nobody sees anybody truly. Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us."

Born Thomas Lanier Williams III in Columbus, MS #OTD 1911 . . . Remembering #TennesseeWilliams, on his Birthday Anniversary!

"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going."

—Tennessee Williams
#botd

Object of the week: The Academy Cinema’s bespoke posters for Seven Samurai and other arthouse classics World cinema classics got their own specially designed posters at Oxford Street’s Academy Cinema in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. This Seven Samurai poster is typical of designer Peter Strausfeld’s striking...

Another object of the week blogpost for BFI (written a little while back but freshly released today). Always very happy to indulge my passion for Toshiro Mifune 🤩www.bfi.org.uk/inside-the-archive/featu...

"I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement."
~ François Truffaut

Title song to,'Diamonds Are Forever' sung by my favorite Bond girl Shirley Bassey.

A reflection of a red vehicle and bridge in the River Avon..framed by branches & foliage..

Red Tanker
#photography
#ᵐᵒʳⁿⁱⁿᵍᶜᵒᵐᵐᵘᵗᵉ

"Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense."

Tennessee Williams was born on 26 March 1911.