SUGAR + MEOWS

Self-portrait with pyramid (hand-colored gelatin silver print, 2009) – Youssef Nabil

Dita Von Teese and a friend

Gary Cooper (1930s)

Portrait of a frowning gentleman (daguerreotype, c.1841) – Robert Cornelius

Irène Némirovsky and a friend

Hunger (gelatin silver print, 1921) – Johan Hagemeyer

Portrait of a gentleman butterfly collector (daguerreotype, c.1850)

Cat & Bird (1928) – Paul Klee

Portrait of my wife [Michiko] (1931) – 山脇 巌 (Iwao Yamawaki) (1898–1987)

Allen Ginsberg, NYC – Dana Lixenberg

Portrait of a young pharmacist with his instruments (tintype, c.1870–1900)

murmuju:

Japan’s first robot buddy cop movie, a silent film released in 1919, was shown only once, to an assembly of wealthy land owners in Tokyo. When the film ended, the audience demand for affordable giant robots to work their fields and control the peasants was so insistent, emperor Hirohito had the only copy of the film impounded and destroyed to prevent the idea from capturing the public’s imagination.

Today, this photo is all that remains of the film’s existence. Even the title of the movie has been lost to history.

Autoportrait (1898) – Konstantin Somov

David Hockney, photographed at Reddish Manor by Cecil Beaton

Likely taken the same day in 1969 as this photograph of Hockney with Beaton by Peter Schlesinger.