devotion to hide

kateoplis:

“I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.”

— Erica Jong

kutxx:

1.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Prisons (plate VII, plate IV)

c. 1760, etching, various collections

ellefrancesk:

SCREAMIN JAY HAWKINS - I PUT A SPELL ON YOU

fucking yessssss

(Source: punksvspreps)

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."

— C.S. Lewis (via psych-facts)

lostinpublications:

“Yesterday’s Sandwich” was made in the late 60s and early 70s. “Sandwich” in this case, means the technique of creating a new picture by overlaying two slides. Boris Mikhailov creates with this technique, an extraordinary double world of Soviet drudgery Juxtaposed with sex and beauty.

In the earlier years, Boris Mikhailov was just able to show this body of work in slideshows, because at this time, paper was too expensive. Just in the early 90s he managed to print his work on paper. The first edition was formed of 52 colour tableaux printed on separate unbound boards and enclosed within a specially created folder and slip case.

The new edition was published 2009 by Phaidon, in a hardbound format. You can get a copy directly by Phaidon.

“Yesterday’s Sandwich”, 1960/70” © Boris Mikhailov/Suzanne Tarasieve Paris

Yesterday’s Sandwich”, 1960/70” © Boris Mikhailov/Suzanne Tarasieve Paris

Yesterday’s Sandwich”, 1960/70” © Boris Mikhailov/Suzanne Tarasieve Paris

Yesterday’s Sandwich”, 1960/70” © Boris Mikhailov/Suzanne Tarasieve Paris

Yesterday’s Sandwich”, 1960/70” © Boris Mikhailov/Suzanne Tarasieve Paris

Yesterday’s Sandwich”, 1960/70” © Boris Mikhailov/Suzanne Tarasieve Paris

“This was a period of hidden meanings and coded messages in all genres,” Mikhailov writes in the essay accompanying the book. “Given the scarcity of real news, everyone was on the lookout for the smallest piece of new information, hoping to uncover a secret or read between the lines. Encryption was the only way to explore forbidden subjects such as politics, religion, nudity.”

Here is a nice short video, where Boris Mikhailov explains some pictures of his series.