Deep Space Daguerreotype

I have never seen her with her hair down, and she looks like she’s in some sort of nightgown. Doesn’t she just look like a perfect Pre-Raphaelite beauty here?  

Sitting Lady (The Talk), 1905, Giovanni Boldini

Gene Tierney, 1940s

longingforthevoid

G.A.V. (Alexander, *1931, and Valery, 1936-2009) Traugot (Russian). Kiss (illustration to the Song of Songs).

Sideways against a seascape, red haired and naked, Pandora gazes down at the urn. A moulded sphinx on the unopened lid of the urn is turned in her direction. The crown of hyacinths about her head identifies Pandora as an innocent Greek maiden. The presence of the sphinx at which she gazes with such curiosity suggests a personality on the cusp, on the verge of gaining some harmful knowledge that will henceforth negate her uncomplicated qualities.

Portrait of Jaroslava, 1925 ALPHONSE MUCHA

The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: brass

 Pablo Casals, 1954. -  Yousuf Karsh,

The San Francisco Fire - Arnold Genthe 1906

The Met

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Coresus sacrificing himself to save Callirhoe, 1765

The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971)

‘The Essential Solitude’ by Tereza Zelenkova

The Urania Column, Berlin

The Eternal Eye, Photomontage by Grete Stern, 1950