Paper Trails

Dafy Hagai

Ana Mendieta: “Creek,” 1974. 

SARAI MARI Speak Easy

A favourite from Ryan McGinley’s ‘Animals’.

Wiissa, made up of Wilson Philippe and Vanessa Hollander, are a photography duo from Miami. Shooting strictly on analogue, and capturing their friends clad in dreamy outfits that nod to the fashion of the 60s and 70s, their photographs create a nostalgia for summertime, youth and poolside fun.

Take back to Golden Temple, Amritsar, India.

I Wanna Be Adored

Dinaya Waeyaert; ‘Days Gone By’

Fierce as fuck.

Karolin Klüppel photography capturing the matrileneal society of Khasi in India’s Meghalaya state.

Girl from the matrileneal society of Khasi in India's Meghalaya state. Karolin Klüppel photography. 

Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation.

Allen Ginsberg, “Now Jack as I warned you far back as 1945, if you keep going home to live with your ‘Memère’ you’ll find yourself wound tighter and tighter in her apron strings till you’re an old man and can’t escape…” William Seward Burroughs camping as an André Gide-ian sophisticate lecturing the earnest Thomas Wolfean All-American youth Jack Kerouac who listens soberly dead-pan to “the most intelligent man in America” for a funny second’s charade in my living room 206 East 7th Street Apt 16, Manhattan, one evening Fall 1953

Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, railroad brakeman’s rule-book in pocket couch-pillows airing on fire-escape three flights up overlooking backyard clotheslines south. He’d already published The Town & the City, completed a treasury of half-dozen unprinted classic volumes including On the Road, Visions of Cody, Doctor Sax, early books of Blues and Dreams, & had begun The Subterraneans’ adventurous love affair with Alene Lee, “Mardou Fox.” Alene typed for W. S. Burroughs then in residence editing Yage Letters & Queer mss., unpublishable that decade, censorship ruled. I scribed “The Green Automobile,” Gregory Corso visited that season, 206 East 7th Street near Tompkins Park, Manhattan, probably September 1953

Stones and Chelsea boots.