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“Yes. I’ve got goose bumps. And I am shivering. God help me. I am mute like a moon.”

— Clarice Lispector, from “Brasília”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)

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#sade #no ordinary love

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raul julia & rosalind cash as edmund and goneril in the 1974 new york shakespeare production of king lear, directed by edwin sherin.

#raul julia #rosalind cash #king lear #play archives*

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halle berry in race the sun, 1996

#race the sun

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sade by albert watson, 1992

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new york city. leather chairs ‘cab’ and white sofas ‘tilbery’ by bellini for cassina, the table by harry stein. tizio lamp by artemide. vogue casa, dec of 1985.

#interiors archive

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denzel washington, joie lee in mo’ better blues ‘90, by spike lee. cinematography by ernest r. dickerson.

#mo better blues

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denzel washington and joie lee, photographed by david lee for the promotional shots of mo’ better blues in 1990. brooklyn, new york.

#mo better blues #my scans

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kara young for vogue italia c. 1990

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there is something charming, comforting, and satisfyingly charismatic about eighties and early nineties home decor.

#<3

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thomas roma. sunset park.

© 1998. new york city.

“here a camera becomes an instrument of a sharply knowing lyrical poetry that draws its energy from a late-twentieth-century urban scene; and here, as consequence, a poignant vitality and unassuming humanity are rescued from the flow of life’s events.”

— robert coles

#portraits #<3

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Jazz is unmatched

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A boy gives a raised fist salute in front of the New Haven courthouse during a demonstration by 15,000 people in 1970. Bobby Seale, chairman of the Black Panther Party, and Ericka Huggins were on trial along for murder. Both were acquitted (photo by Stephen Shames)

#portraits

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raul julia and valerie mahaffey in the 1977-80 broadway revival of dracula, photographed by martha swope

#raul julia #play archives*

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sade “keep looking” (stronger than pride, 1988)

#music

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angela bassett in vampire in brooklyn by wes craven, 1995

#— p. film frames