A few more bouquet commissions

“There seemed to be something a lot more intimate and having more to do with self-presentation. And that’s unlike anything I had seen from that period when all moving picture images of African Americans were through a white lens and are distortions, misrepresentations, or pseudo anthropological. And this is none of that.”

a #moment in herstory

Eva Stort (German, 1855-1936): View from the window (Schöneberg) (1890) (via Düsseldorfer Auktionshaus)

https://twitter.com/northumbriana/status/846454474654781442

L'Amour et Psyche by Eugène Médard (1878)

[Text ID: Tweet from @LibraryOfCongress reading “One of the most beloved free-to-use photos in the Library’s collection is of Brünnhilde, for obvious reasons. We’re happy to report that 2023 comes with a freshly digitized photograph of Brünnhilde from another angle.”]