Q’s Diary. (2026)

Ladies Room at the Studio 54, NYC. July 1977.

Morocco, 1934-37. Jean Besancenot

Auguste Raynaud (French, 1855 - 1937)

Dinah Washington, Los Angeles, 1959. Singer and pianist Dinah Washington was a trailblazer who embraced multi-colored wigs and extravagant furs to match her flamboyant jazz style. She announces that if Doris Day and Elvis Presley are going to make money singing the blues then she has a right to adopt their white personae in her performances. Washington's crossover success inspires later artists - such as Etta James, Tina Turner, Patti LaBelle, Mary J. Blige, etc. - to do the same.

Mark Rothko, Earth Green (detail), 1955

Francesca Woodman

Lee Miller by Man Ray, 1930

Bedouin basket weavers near Shalim. Scanned from the book The Craft Heritage of Oman; 2003; Neil Richardson & Marcia Dorr

Masahisa Fukase. Seikan Ferryboat, 1976.

.david lynch on the set of wild at heart 1990

Scanned from the book Abha Bilad Asir: South-Western Region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 1989; photos by Madeha al-Ajroush

“The Sorrows of Satan” (1926) film still | dir. by D. W. Griffith | A cinematic image immortalized through Bauhaus’ “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” (1979) cover artwork.

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