EVERY SHUT EYE AIN'T ASLEEP

(Chatsworth, GA; iPhone 6)

Somewhere In Normandy / Winter

1938. “Swimwear model on bow of skiff at Marineland.” Medium format negative by Toni Frissell. View full size.

We begin with a seminal independent film that received a retrospective screening in 2009. The female gaze is front and center in Bette Gordon’s Variety (1983), a crafty, neon-bathed noir about a curious ticket-taker at a Times Square porno palace who takes a precarious liking to her new profession. Haven’t seen this masterpiece yet? Fix that immediately.

  Oswaldo Guayasamín - Torso desnudo, 1995. Oil on canvas

The Female Painter Pierre Roy - 1931 Private collection Painting - oil on canvas Height: 60 cm (23.62 in.), Width: 73 cm (28.74 in.)

“The Art of Conversation”

Winter.  Brooklyn, New York.

Lesbian bar, Paris, 1936

Isaiah rashad - West Savannah ft. Sza

Within Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux, 1920)

Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders

leaf ghosting by d.composed

Salvador de Bahia by Pierre Verger

Todd Hido