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Inside - Outside, Thierry Mandon

Thierry Mandon, Tableau vivant, 2007 – 2008

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Hannah Höch with her Dada puppets, ca 1920 by Willy Römer

olivia laing: not long before he (david wojnarowicz) died, he made a photograph in the desert of his own face, eyes closed, teeth bared, almost buried beneath the dirt, an image of defiance in the face of extinction. if silence equals death, he taught us, then art equals language equals life.

David Wojnarowicz from Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City

Lido, Venice, 1959, by Italian photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin

I also really like the fact that beneath the plastic sheet the subjects are on, you can still make out the rubbish beneath, which helps stop the photo becoming overly minimal.

Keith Arnatt, from Pictures from a Rubbish Tip, 1988-99

Francis Bacon by Peter Beard (1972)

Peter Beard self portrait

Janus Films — The Color of Pomegranates

Photo by Ralph Gibson

@Malick Sidibé