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Monday 31 December 2018

Ordinary Days


                          One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days,

John Wolgang Von Goethe

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Danny Lyon
1968

Guesses She Knows


pouty lipsticked mouth, she has the redhead's
true pallor like skimmed-milk, damned good looking
and she guesses she knows it, but what exactly
has it gotten her so far, and where ? - he'll start
to feel guilty in a few days, she knows

Joyce Carol Oates
excerpt from
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks 1942

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Nighthawks
Edward Hopper 1942
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Sunday 30 December 2018

1955

Killers Kiss

Rififi

Night of the Hunter 

Mr Arkadin

Death of a Cyclist

Bad Day at Black Rock

 Big Combo

Desperate Hours

Les Diaboliques

Kiss Me Deadly

House of Bamboo

Looking for Ways


        Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.

Ross MacDonald
The Chill
1963

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Robert K. Abbett

Saturday 29 December 2018

Big Lonely City #28

Kozak Lajos

Werner Bischof

Saul Leiter

Russell Lee

unknown

Lou Stoumen

Walter Chandoha

Walter Payton

Brassai

Walker Evans

Paul Wolff

Frank Navara

John Vachon

Vivian Maier

Jack Delano

Clemens Kalischer

Andre Kertesz

Max Yavno

Alfred Gescheidt

Vsevolod Tarasevich

Alexander Hammid

Elliott Erwitt

Jack Delano

unknown

N Jay Jafee

Marc Riboud

Enrico Natali

Louis Stettner

Knowing Something


I can sense it. I hover around a neighbourhood knowing something is gonna happen.

Weegee