Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
#Antarctic #Shackleton #Explorer #Endurance
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist best known for his role in developing critical theory as director of the Institute for Social Research, commonly associated with the Frankfurt School.
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#Adorno #Horkheimer #WalterBenjamin
In his Workers series, he reveals the grandeur and tragedy of industrial labor; in Migrations, the pain of mass displacement; and in Genesis, the fragile beauty of nature and traditional life. As John Berger emphasized, Salgado's photographs focus not on suffering, but on resistance to suffering and human dignity. He presents workers, refugees, and indigenous peoples not as anonymous victims, but with their individual identities and resilience. His photographs go beyond specific events, addressing global and historical issues such as capitalism, exploitation, migration, and environmental destruction through a metaphorical language. With the gold miners of Serra Pelada, he reveals not only 1980s Brazil but also humanity's helpless relationship with greed and hope.
Despite Susan Sontag's criticism of “aestheticization,” Salgado's powerful use of composition and light captures the viewer's attention, encouraging a deeper examination of the subject. Salgado continues the tradition of 19th-century social documentarians (Riis, Hine) and 20th-century humanist photographers (Smith, Lange), using photography as an archive and a tool for memory. However, his projects are not so much interventions in a single social issue as they are works that document humanity's industrial and ecological journey in a holistic manner and have a philosophical dimension.
Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025) transformed photography into an epic narrative of the global human condition. His black-and-white photographs form a powerful bridge between aesthetic perfection and social documentary.
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#Salgado #Art #Photography
Charlotte Rampling is an English actress. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model. She was cast in the role of Meredith in the 1966 film Georgy Girl, which starred Lynn Redgrave.
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#Stars #CharlotteRampling #Sky #Art
Richard Alan Beirach (1947-2026) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
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#MyFunnyValentine
Robert Doisneau was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and, with Henri Cartier-Bresson, a pioneer of photojournalism.
#DigitalArt #Doisneau #Paris #Marvel #Thor
Dystopia and Surrealism with Marcus Wallinder:
#Art #X-Man #Deadpool #Marvel #Thor #Venom
The characters experience the fear and hope of forming new bonds while living with the weight of the past. Their relationships are not passionate escapes, but slow-developing, anxious, and realistic approaches. One of the film's most striking features is the interweaving of color and black-and-white sequences. These transitions symbolize moods, memories, and emotional intensity.
Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant
A Man and a Woman by Claude Lelouch, 1966 ‧ Romance/Drama ‧ 1h 42m: A man and a woman cross paths at the boarding school where their children study. They begin to love each other, but the woman struggles with her affection for her dead husband.
#Art #DigitalArt #ClaudeLelouch
Richard Avedon’s Timeless Portraits of the American West
Freida Kleinsasser, Thirteen Year Old, Hutterite Colony, Harlowton, Montana, June 23, 1983Photography by Richard Avedon © The Richard Avedon Foundation
#Avedon #Gursky #FrancesBenjaminJohnston
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (1869-1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
#DigitalArt #RedFish #GoldMark #Cat
Howard Hughes was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifetime.
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#TWA #Aviation #Hughes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an English actor and director. Recognised for his work on stage and screen, has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for 3 Academy Awards, 7 Golden Globe Awards.
#Art #christmas #booksky #oc
His most famous work, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, depicts the battle between good and evil within the individual. This theme is not only universal but also deeply connected to Calvinist Scottish theology and moral understanding. The Calvinist doctrine prevalent in Scotland emphasizes the sinfulness of human nature and internal conflict. Stevenson transformed this religious/moral heritage into a psychological thriller masterpiece by combining it with Victorian hypocrisy. Stevenson spent most of his life outside Scotland due to his chronic illness (tuberculosis), living in Switzerland, America, and finally in the South Pacific (Samoa). This state of "exile" fuelled themes of alienation, longing for home, and the search for belonging, which are frequently explored in his works. As a Scot, the experience of being "far from home" permeated the spirit of his characters and stories.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped, and the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses.
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#Art #Stevenson
I came across his newest movie. It is a comedy: www.imdb.com/title/tt3009...
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Puccini became the heir to Verdi as the most in-demand Italian opera composer. "La bohème" (1896); "Tosca" (1900); and "Madama Butterfly" (1904) have become standard repertoire to this day. Puccini's final work "Turandot" was incomplete at the time of his death in 1924. It was finished by Franco Alfano, and published in 1926. It contains the often heard aria "Nessun dorma" ("Let no one sleep").
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Born into a family of musicians - 4 generations of maestri di cappella at the Cathedral of Lucca - Giacomo Puccini had music in his blood. His first big success "Manon Lescaut" premiered in Turin in 1893, just a week before Giuseppe Verdi's final opera, "Falstaff".
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"The past is a country we invented." Where Dead Voices Gather I can't remember how many friends and acquaintances I recommended his books to. Tosches was unique. I had compared his writing style to that of Hubert Selby Jr., James Ellroy, and William T. Vollmann, but that was more to emphasize that he belonged to the class of writers who were never afraid to get their hands dirty. He was unique, damn it. And I'll miss him.
Nicholas P. Tosches (1949-2019) was an American journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet. His 1982 biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, Hellfire, was praised by Rolling Stone magazine as "the best rock and roll biography ever written."
#RockandRoll #Art #Tosches
Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years. Considered one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, Bertolucci's work achieved international acclaim.
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#Art #BFI #Bertolucci
"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is." "A writer is selected by his subject – his subject is the consciousness of his own era." "Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area." Nadine Gordimer's writing was celebrated for its moral intensity and its unflinching examination of the human condition under apartheid.
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. Gordimer was one of the most honoured female writers of her generation.
#Art #SA #Gordimer #Literature
Tilda Swinton is a British actress. She is known for playing eccentric and enigmatic characters, often working with auteurs. Her accolades include an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Volpi Cup.
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#Art #BFI #TildaSwinton
Best known for her role as Naoko Yamada in the Trick TV series and movie, Yukie Nakama is one of many female "idols" in Japan who juggle three jobs: actress, model and singer.
#Art #Kyoto #Flowers #Shinobi #Musashi
Diane Keaton (1946-2025) Rip.
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Terence Davies (1945-2023) was a British screenwriter, film director, and novelist. He is best known as the writer and director of autobiographical films, including Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Long Day Closes.
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#TerenceDavies #Liverpool #EmilyDickinson #BFI
Simone Signoret was a French actress best known for her performances in films such as "Room at the Top" (1958), "Ship of Fools" (1965) and "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre" (1966).
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Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French film director. He made a notable contribution to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, ellipses, and sparse use of scoring have led his works to be regarded as preeminent examples of minimalist film.
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Born in a Sicilian community in Tunis in 1938, Claudia Cardinale grew up speaking Sicilian dialect, French, and Tunisian Arabic, and aspired to be a schoolteacher.
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(1938-2025) Rip
#ClaudiaCardinale #Rip #Art #TheLeopard
Dame Lesley Lawson, widely known by the nickname Twiggy, is an English model, actress, and singer. She was a British cultural icon and a prominent teenage model during the "swinging sixties" in London.
#Art #Twiggy #1960s
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#Art #RobertRedford #AFI
Lauren Bacall was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the Golden Age of motion pictures.
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9/13/49: Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring, w/Setsuko Hara, Chishû Ryû
Fave of many incl Wenders, Ceylan, Claire Denis, Sontag
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@rohmersimpson.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/late-spr...
@gemko.bsky.social: www.panix.com/~dangelo/Apr...
