i can’t hardly stand it

Sophie Calle.

Theda Bara

Your prettiness is seeping through Out from the dress I took from you, so pretty

Cleopatra, details, 1524 - 1526, by Giampietrino (Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli) Oil painting. Bucknell University Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. High Renaissance.

The Unseen, Tereza Zelenkova, 2015

Central Park Scenes, 1991 ~ New York ⌘ Roller skaters and sunbathers enjoy a summer day in the park.

When plague survivors fled nearby Aguemoum, one ancestor of the current owner built this small house on a rocky ridge above a narrow gorge, at the heart of Aït El-Kaïd. At the time these photo were taken, Ahmed's 80-year-old mother, who had painted the interior, was dying in an adjoining room. Twenty years earlier, having no daughter to continue the tradition, she had chosen weather-resistant paints for the walls and her ceramics.

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) dir. Charles Laughton

Magdalenian, 15,500 ybp

'treatment for lachrimal fistula performed on a nun' from 'arzneibuch' c. 1675 in the art of medicine: over 2000 years of images and imagination - julie anderson, emm barnes + emma shackleton (2011)

from The Capitoline Museum, Rome