Four Prints

Harro Siegel (German, 1900-1985) marionette of Grendel from his post-war production of Beowulf. The woman in the photo is identified as Bascha.

from servatius

1946 Portraits at Howard University

Fuller Street, Bandy, Virginia.

Figure (1970) by Nancy Grossman.

Eartha Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008)

I'm graduating from my Master's this month. Here's a 400 year old book I looked through recently, with centuries of marginalia in it

Roger Minick, Untitled, CA, 1977

Leon Bakst - The poet Zinaida Gippius (1906)

Werner Bischof. Bullfight souvenirs, Mexico city, 1954.

"Sypanie piaskiem" is an old custom from the rural parts of Poland that consists in drawing protective or decorative symbols with sand.

link via @inlandwest

'Taxi zum Klo' (dir. by Frank Ripploh) [1980]

Late night library sessions at Bryn Mawr College, 1959, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt

French vintage postcard, photographed by Bergeret