Touched by the Blue

Alvin Ailey

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"One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody."

"To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living."

“There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy.”

"Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people."

Alvin Ailey (Jan 5, 1931 – Dec 1, 1989)

Ulli Steltzer, Hot Springs Cove, Tofino fisherman, 1978.

From the book “Coast of many faces”, 1979.

“…Initially, Ulli worked as a music teacher, but after one of her students showed her how to use a Rolleiflex camera in 1954, she fell in love with photography. He taught her how to use a Rolleiflex double-lens reflex camera, and that’s the camera she used all her life.

Her social conscience led her to take photos of African Americans in the South, and then of the Hopi and Navajo tribes in the American Southwest…”

James H. Johnson, Modern residential innovation: Robert H. Antell house, Pittsford, 1971.

Photograph by Hans Padelt.

Building a bonfire. Via (via)

Dish, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Medieval Art

Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Brass