modern tragedy

Vladimir Nabokov, from an interview for “BBC-2 (1969)”, Strong Opinions (1973)

Meena Alexander, from “Fault Lines,” originally published c. 1993

Observatory Time: The Lovers, 1936, Man Ray

Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Helen Whitman featured in “The last letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman,”

Makeup at Valentino S/S 2019

Ennio Chiggio, Diffrazione mobile a losanghe, 1968 [10 A.M. Art Gallery, Milano]

Ralph Crane, Lauren Bacall lights a Cigarette, 1945

Martin Creed, Work No. 200 - Half the air in a given space, 1998.

#LookFurther | Martin Creed.

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr, 1954 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ivory

Saul Leiter, Lynn, 1969

— Bianca Stone, from “Morning Routine,” published in The Baffler

The Second Movement, Page 14, by Lola Rodriguez