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Hannah Höch, Dompteuse (Tamer), 1930, Photomontage with collage elements, 14 x 10 1/4 inches (Kunsthaus Zürich)
Disco a Giallo!
Summer reading list, part 1.
- Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America by George Kouvaros
- Becoming Visionary: Brian DePalma’s Cinematic Education of the Senses by Eyal Peretz
- The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience by Jennifer M. Barker
- Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony by Richard Allen
- Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon by Allen S. Weiss
- Heidegger’s Crisis: Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany by Hans Sluga
- Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television by Jeffrey Sconce
Illustration by Hans Bellmer for Georges Bataille’s Histoire de l’oeil (Story of the Eye), 1940s
Bath time!
The Chemosphere, designed by American architect John Lautner in 1960, is an innovative Modernist octagon house in Los Angeles, California. The house was included in a list of all time top 10 houses in Los Angeles in a Los Angeles Times survey of experts in 2008. The home is currently owned by Benedikt Taschen, of the German publishing house Taschen since 2000.
Source: marinachetner.com | openbuildings.com | wikipedia.org
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Piero Umiliani - Free Life (ext.)
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“The body of a rotund man floating along the Thames looked familiar, the face and the portly figure recognisable from the movies.
But nothing nasty had happened to Alfred Hitchcock. The East End-born son of a London greengrocer was merely exercising his macabre sense of humour and marketing skills.
The director was announcing his return home to make Frenzy, a typically gruesome thriller and the first film he’d made entirely in his home country for more than 20 years.
Floating a lifelike dummy of himself on the river was the type of gimmick, mischievous and macabre, that he loved. In a business where those in front of the cameras expect to be the stars, Hitchcock proved bigger than his movies.”
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Lady Terminator [1989]
Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. Adjani received Best Actress honors for her performances in Possession and Quartet.
Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale promote their film The Leopard at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. The film, directed by Luchino Visconti, won the Palme d’Or that year.
