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Dear Stranger, by Shizuka Yokomizo
For this 1998-2000 series of portraits, photographer Shizuka Yokomizo left several anonymous letters on the doorsteps of random ground floor apartments that read:
“Dear Stranger,
I am an artist working on a photographic project which involves people I do not know…. I would like to take a photograph of you standing in your front room from the street in the evening.”
The letter specified a certain ten-minute period during which the artist would approach, take the picture, and slip back into the darkness. She would only reveal her identity once her subjects received a print and contact information (so that they could let her know if they objected to their portrait being exhibited).
Yokomizo made sure that when the photos were taken, the light would be too dark outside to see her — it would only allow her subjects to see their own reflections in the window they were looking out of.
(Source: codeines, via ivegotabike)
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Melba Moore, seated in a nude pose, July 1971 by Jack Robinson.
The photo, which appeared in the October 15, 1971 issue of Vogue, was taken as Ms. Moore was touring the country after appearing on Broadway in “Hair” and “Purlie.”
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High ResolutionA Polish couple flees the city of Warsaw by bicycle with a few of their possessions.
Warsaw, Poland, 1939.
Everyone would believe my pictures: The legacy of Julien Bryan
via USHMM
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the hamartia disease
Mosquito had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are
already a skeleton."
Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.
