I love shit like this. It’s amazing to see how the image of an ‘ideal woman’ has changed throughout history.
I especially loved the inclusion of Venus and Adonis by Peter Paul Rubens:
Today, “Rubenesque” is a polite way to say “big” or “plus-sized.” Peter Paul Rubens painted portraits of full-figured women in the early 1600s, inspired by his second wife, 16-year-old Hélène Fourment.
Still one of my favorite photography blogs. I know levitating photos are done to death, but I still think they’re fascinating when done well, and she does them damn well.
When Arkansas executed Rickey Ray Rector back when Bill Clinton was governor, the mentally impaired inmate famously set aside half of his last meal—a pecan pie—for after the execution. Since 1976, 879 people have been executed in the United States, 82 percent in the South, 399 in Texas and Virginia alone. Prisoners are generally allowed to choose a last meal, though requests for tobacco products and even chewing gum can be denied, as with Larry Wayne White’s lone cigarette. In an ongoing project, photographer Celia A. Shapiro has reconstructed such last requests. Each picture has its own back story—Ricky Lee Sanderson eschewed his last meal in protest but eventually ate a HoneyBun—and overall, her photos better illustrate who we execute than any grim statistical profile ever could.
In his introduction to “Where Children Sleep,” Mollison writes about how his encounters with so many different children and families affected him: “I came to appreciate just how privileged I am to have had a personal kingdom to sleep in and grow. …
“I hope this book will help children think about inequality, within and between societies around the world, and perhaps start to figure out how, in their own lives, they may respond.”
So many of these pictures are breathtaking, but all of them are moving. I really really want this book.
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