A random Flickr discovery.
Category: {gay}
Gay
Cocteau at the Louvre des Antiquaires
Orphée aux points by Jean Cocteau (1950).
An exhibition of Cocteau drawings from the collection of
Dominique Bert opens today at the Louvre des Antiquaires, Paris.
Jean Cocteau (1899–1963): Collection privée de Dominique Bert
23rd March–22nd April 2007
Le Louvre des Antiquaires
2, Place du Palais Royal
75001 PARIS
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Fantômas
• La Villa Santo Sospir by Jean Cocteau
Les Demi Dieux
Flickr set of (rare?) photos from a gay New York studio of the Fifties and Sixties.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• California boys by Mel Roberts
The past inside the present
Camilla Akrans borrows some Thirties’ style for the New York Times.
Horst Torso by George Hoyningen-Huene (1931).
“Horst” was Horst P Horst, Hoyningen-Huene’s lover at the
time and later a respected fashion photographer for Vogue.
Divers by George Hoyningen-Huene (1930).
Fashion shoot by Camilla Akrans for the New York Times, March 2007.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The Decorative Age
• Vintage magazine art II
It’s all over for homophobia
It’s all over for homophobia.
“When gay-bashing is the preserve of mealy-mouthed euphemism, its death knell has sounded,” says Zoe Williams. We can but hope. See this earlier story for further details.