Friday 22 April 2011

At the moment II

Here are some of the photos that inspire me the most at the moment--I hope they will inspire you as well.


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Photos 1 & 2: I find the lines formed by the bodies in both photos very compelling, but what I like even more (or equally) are the very clean and sharp hairstyles. I've been keeping my hair around shoulder-length for about six months now, after years of mainly having long hair, and these photos make me want to go even shorter. I probably won't, but these still inspire me to have a more polished but still a bit scruffy (if that makes any sense) hairstyle. The second photo, of silent actress Bessie Love, is definitely amongst my favourites.


Photo 3: This photo of the Bauhaus Dessau school students has been going around the blogs for a while now, and I can't help but stop and stare at it for some time every time I stumble upon it. Of course, it inspires me to dress in a more intersting way, but it also pushes me to be more creative in other parts of my life. On a side note, the blurry woman in the velvet dress, in the center, looks very much like my maternal grandmother.


Photo 4: Do you recognise it? It's the back of Leonard Cohen's Songs From A Room. I cannot dissociate Leonard Cohen from the romantic idea I had of Montreal before living there, and I always thought my apartment would look a bit like that (although I recently learnt this photo was taken in Greece). I picked my first apartment because it had large windowsills--that was pretty much the only nice part about it though.


Photos: 1(?), 2 (Scan from James Abbe's Stars of the Twenties ), 3 (Bauhaus Archive, Berlin via The Guardian), 4 (taken by L. Cohen, photo of Marianne Ihlen--yes, that Marianne!).

3 comments:

  1. oh these are just so wonderful....very inspiring photos. oh leonard cohen...i walked straight up to him a year ago on st-laurent and asked to shake his hand. i almost started crying.
    kind gentle man! ;))

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  2. I find the first and the third very compelling - that feeling of movement captured and the position of everyone in the pictures - the way my eye moves around the picture feels almost hypnotic. Thanks for sharing these!

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  3. If Jane: Oh, I'm jealous! I apparently served him when I worked in a grocery store in the Mile End, but I was too shy to ask if it was really him. I guess that'll be for another time...

    Lin: I'm glad you like them, they're amongst my favourites!

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