A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Photography
Rue Saint André des Arts sous l’eau Inondations.
The Great Flood of Paris, January 1910, as seen via picture postcards. There’s more here and at Flickr.
75008 Bld Haussmann Effondrement Egout Inondations.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Old lighthouses
• Adolph Sutro’s Gingerbread Palace
• Atget’s Paris
Kenneth Anger, Topanga Canyon, California, Composite (1954).
This portrait of a dashing Kenneth Anger juxtaposes the filmmaker with an engraving by Gustave Doré for Paradise Lost. Like his contemporary Emil Cadoo, photographer Edmund Teske (1911–1996) often concealed the homoerotic nature of his pictures by rendering them “artistic” through double-exposure. Teske was friends with rock group The Doors, and a number of his studies of Jim Morrison and co. are very familiar from histories of the band.
Nude, Davenport, Iowa, Composite with Leaves (1941/46).
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Emil Cadoo
• The art of Robert Flynt
Megaphone from Gymnasium.
I wasn’t aware that photographer Luke Smalley had died prematurely this year until a brief post I’d made about his work started getting hits from an obituary piece at the NYT. Bill O’Connor of Wessel + O’Connor emailed this weekend with news of a showing of Smalley’s final photo series, Sunday Drive, at Clampart, NYC. As with earlier series such as Gymnasium (2000), there’s also a monograph available from Twin Palms Publishers.
Luke Smalley: Sunday Drive—A Memorial Exhibition runs until December 19, 2009.
Medicine Ball from Gymnasium.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Luke Smalley
We haven’t had any proper eye candy here for a while so let’s correct that with some Brazilian beauty in the shape of model Arthur Sales, from a shoot for Butch Swim. Photo by Cristiano Madureira. Via VGL where you can see a lot more pics.
One of a series of stunning ads by Y&R of Chicago for the River North Chicago Dance Company which give the old “body as machine” a contemporary and rather erotic twist. (I would have credited the photographer but the ad agency site is the usual Flash interface which refuses to work in any of my browsers.) The picture below is an older version of the meme by Fritz Kahn from 1926.
Via Homotography.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Tiger Lily
• Chris Nash
• Peter Reed and Salomé After Dark
• Felix D’Eon
• Dancers by John Andresen
• Youssef Nabil
• Images of Nijinsky
• The art of Hubert Stowitts, 1892–1953