DARK PLACE

“photographs of victorian women who never cut their hair, 1860-1900 .”

KRYSTEN RITTER Schön Magazine 43 (October 2022)

Lauren Bacall, 1940s

The Haunting (1963) dir. Robert Wise

— Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (b. 16 December 1775)

Georgie Hobday photographed by Frances Davison

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Andre de Dienes, 1949.

Larry Fink, ICP Peter Beard Opening, 1977

by Francesco Lupicini- 1630

Courtney Love, 1994

devon aoki by terry richardson for vogue nippon,2002.

Monroe’s bookshelf was exceedingly impressive. At the time of her death, she owned more than 400 volumes, including several first editions. Of the thousands of photographs taken of her, she was especially fond of ones that showed her reading. When a director once found her reading R.M. Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, he asked her how she chose it. “[On] nights when I’ve got nothing else to do I go to the Pickwick bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard,” she told him. “And I just open books at random—or when I come to a page or a paragraph I like, I buy that book. So last night I bought this one. Is that wrong?”