I just had to have my own Jeunesse Dorée…

Trip to the Lady Lever Art Gallery.

Dentist.

Garry Winogrand.

Aquarena Springs,
San Marcos, Texas.

1964.

How can a one word judgement sum up the complexity of an institution and the breadth and depth of its service to its community?

This latest set of nepotistic awards makes the royal family look ridiculous, arrogant and self-serving. It also illustrates graphically how our monarchy is still an imperial one, wedded to a distant past and totally out of touch with modern Britain. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A trilogy of sequels? 🙃 theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/…

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

I am a Byron.
So I should know.

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How narrow a perspective does this moron have?

Ilse Bing.

Self-Portrait with Leica.

Paris.

1931.

Palmer Hayden.

The Janitor Who Paints.

C 1937, repainted after 1940.

Hayden said his friend Cloyd Boykin, an artist who like Hayden, had supported himself as a janitor, inspired this piece: “I painted it because no one called Boykin the artist. They called him the janitor.”

Just popped round to see Betty.

She always likes to sit on my shoe.

Sally Mann.

Gorjus.

1989.

Gerald Murphy.

Watch.

1925.

Murphy with his wife, Sara, was at the center of a dazzling circle that included Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Dorothy Parker, Cole Porter and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald famously based Dick and Nicole Diver on the Murphys.

Happy 90th Shirley MacLaine.

Anais Nin.

“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.'

“I write not as I speak, I speak not as I think, I think not as I ought to think, and so it goes into the deepest darkness.” apple.news/AvpzXhfsZSdqZw…