killerbeesting*

Walter Frederick Seely (1886–1959), Tina Modotti and Roubaix de l'Abrie Richey, 1921

Gordon Parks

Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte at a party at Sardi’s restaurant in honor of Lorraine Hansberry’s Broadway play ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ in New York, March 1959.

Kali (Joan Archibald), Su One Eye, Palm Springs, CA, 1970

Kali (Joan Archibald), Face (Blue and Green), Palm Springs, CA, 1968.

“You learn to be an artist.” ~*Vilmos Zsigmond

Vilmos Zsigmond

Lotte Jacobi, Pauline Koner, 1950

Eric Swayne, Charlie Watts and Shirley, 1963

Hiro, Jerry Hall, Saint Martin, French West Indies, 1975

Vivian Maier, location and date unknown

Eva Rubinstein, Diane Arbus, 1971

August Sander, The Dadaist Raoul Hausmann with Hedwig Mankiewitz and Vera Broido

August Sander, Circus Artists, 1926-1932

August Sander, Circus Workers, 1926-1932

No longer am I waiting

For someone else

To take me out

of that dark place

The self of you is the prime mover

~*Louise Nevelson photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1978.

Irving Penn, The painters Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight, New York, 1947

Richard Avedon, Mike Nichols and Elaine May