chasing salvation

The crypt beneath the Church of the Nativity of Our Lord, Loreta, Prague. > Photos by P. Zuchnický.

Galatea (1847) by Charles Jalabert

the narrative is autobiographical, as she recounts the day she was followed by a private investigator. The current lot, comprised of 22 separate parts, sees this text coupled with photographs and notes taken by the private investigator, unaware that his target had orchestrated the set-up in the first place. Calle states, “At my request, my mother went to a detective agency called ‘Duluc’. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.”

— Velimir Khlebnikov, from Collected Poems & Writings of V. K.; “Visitations,”

Vladimir Nabokov – Anatomical drawing of a butterfly

Artist Mona Caron creates a gigantic flower mural on side of a building in Jersey City

Spring Breakers

Smoke Creek Desert, Gerlach, Nevada, late 1950s.

Kay Francis wearing Coco Chanel costume jewelry 1930