Depth Noir

Back of the album cover with a stark photo of the three over the LP's credits.

The Cult's album cover for their 1985 album 'Love'. Very Egyptian heiroglyphs in it's style.

Listening
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The Cult • 'Big Neon Glitter', Love, 1985

A black-and-white photo of a lone figure in a long dark dress standing on a crumbling staircase inside a ruined Gothic building, framed by a large pointed arch.

Nona Limmen • 'Solifugid', '16

Black-and-white portrait of a person in a leather jacket and dark gloves, crouching and holding up a stiletto against a plain dark backdrop.

Stephanie Chernikowski + Diamanda Galás
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(Slim odds but my wish she's the one who finally sticks him in the throat.)

Black-and-white photo of a young woman with short, tousled hair and a striped shirt, gazing at herself in a mirror while holding a cigarette to her lips.

Kyle Johnson • 'Rose', '11

Black-and-white magazine-style portrait of a woman (Jean Seberg) with a short pixie haircut, resting her hand against her face, holding a close to finished cig and looking toward the camera.

Uberto Guidotti for Daisy de Galard • Jean Seberg

Black-and-white photo of a slender person standing with their back exposed, wearing a bra and a lowered patterned skirt, while another person sits below looking toward the camera in a dim interior.

Lisetta Carmi, '60

Black-and-white image of a seated figure seen from behind, with arms bound by rope, their cut hair scattered on the floor, and scissors lying nearby in a stark, high-contrast setting.

Nobuyoshi Araki

Black-and-white still life of several iris flowers leaning from the left, their dark petals and long stems casting sharp shadows across a sunlit wall split by a vertical band of shade.

Robert Mapplethorpe • Irises, NYC, '77

A medieval-style illustration of several animals gathered beneath a sky filled with stars, a crescent moon, and a sun, including deer, dogs, a unicorn, rabbits, and other creatures in muted blue, purple, brown, and white tones.

Antoine Vérard • 'Animals Under the Night Sky' (The Art of Living Well and Dying Well), 1494
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Yep, unicorns in the 15th C.

Moody monochrome portrait of a seated sheer nude figure shown from behind, with a cluster of pale flowers draped across their upper back against a dark backdrop.

Andrea Kiss

Deep sadness is most often mute and concealed.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Little Hero

Black-and-white, grainy portrait of a person seen from behind, with long hair draped over their bare shoulder and a leafy branch obscuring part of their face.

Luciana Salgado

Black-and-white photo of a woman in a short dark dress posing on stone steps before a columned pavilion, with another woman standing blurred in the background.

Close-up of a weathered, dark-stained wall with a small window opening that frames an old white teapot, creating a stark, eerie scene.

Andrey Godyaykin

Black-and-white photo of a woman standing in a dark interior, seen through a narrow window framed by weathered wood, with a streak of light in the cloudy sky above.

Jean-Luc Perez

Black-and-white photo of a person lying under a blanket on a bed, with a small cat curled beside them, beneath a window with bent venetian blinds.

William Gedney
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(The blinds of a cat-owner.)

Black-and-white surreal portrait of a woman’s face overlaid with a bat, so the bat’s wings and head form a haunting mask across her eyes and nose.

Pablo Volta • Ornella Volta, a proof for the illustrations of 'Le vampire', published first in France by Pauvert, Paris '62 & then Italy by Sugar, Milan '64

Black-and-white street photograph of two young women standing outside a doorway, one leaning against a wall with folded arms and the other posing in the dark entrance, wearing a short dress and knee-high boots.

Gerard Petrus Fieret

Black-and-white surreal photograph of a nude woman floating horizontally against a dark sky filled with bright clouds, with silhouetted trees below.

Nobuyoshi Araki

Watching
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Nikolay Gogol & Yuri Illienko • 'Vechir na Ivana Kupala', Ukraine, '68

Witches are not so delicate (Valyrkjan & Icelandic Selkie), June 2024

Thank you!

Black-and-white photo of two people sitting in a dim restaurant booth, laughing and partially hiding their faces with beer bottles, with a plate of food and an empty glass on the table.

Mariam Giunashvili

Black-and-white artistic photo of a nude person seated on the forest floor, turned away and partially covering their chest, surrounded by ferns and tangled tree branches.

Selina Mayer

A dark, unsettling painting of a blindfolded nude young woman crouched on a broom while an elderly hooded sorcerer looms behind her with an open spellbook; ghostly faces, a cauldron, and shadowy creatures fill the smoky background.

Antoine Joseph Wiertz • The Young Sorceress, 1857

Black-and-white, high-contrast portrait of a woman resting her chin on her hand, her face softly illuminated against a mostly dark background, wearing jewelry and a dark outfit. Unknown photographer.

Helen Walker in a pub shot for ‘Impact’, ‘49

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman with tattoos on her fingers which spell 'want more', behind the figure is a housexand trees

Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015), US photographer known for her documentary photography and portraiture #WomensArt

Black-and-white portrait of a woman staring directly at the camera, her head wrapped in sheer fabric and her shoulders covered in a shimmering, textured garment against a dark background.

Irina Ionesco, c. ‘80

you can say ‘no’

Watching
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Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy • The VVitch: A New-England Folktale, ‘15