Linda A. Markwell

Photograph by David Bailey Robert Mapplethorpe, London (1980) RM experimented with Polaroids, including a 20″ x 24″ format, and Bailey’s shot is a mise en abyme à la Guy Bourdin (intentionally or otherwise). RM holds a still-developing Polaroid of himself freshly shot by Bailey.

🐈‍⬛Happy Halloween, friends!🎃

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🐈David Hamilton!

Photograph by Herbert Matter Mercedes Matter Provincetown, Massachusetts (1940)

Please help @NeverTrooned—an X neophyte—find some frens.

Photograph by Herbert Matter Mercedes Matter, “Nude on Beach with Shadow” Provincetown, Massachusetts (1940)

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“Don’t Look Now”: The soulless imp and self-proclaimed clairvoyant scuttles and seethes around the glass of my account.

Photograph by Max Dupain “Untitled (Nude—head & shoulders diagonal)” Sydney, Australia (circa 1930s) Published in “Portfolio No. 4: The female form” (1982)

🐈Happy Markwellian Monday! KINDLY DESIST FROM EFFORTS TO ROUSE ME

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Please follow @TwiceHooted and restore his parliament of owls.🦉

🪷Friends, please follow @srr12345134, our flowery friend.

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He needs to die.

Photograph by Bert Garai Ceil Pecora, “Rest Period”, New York (May 3, 1946) CP, here lunching on an ice cream soda, was a Graflex Speed Graphic-wielding photographer employed by Lou Walters’ Latin Quarter club. She sold photographs for $1. ABC’s Barbara Walters was Lou’s scion.

👹The sound of a kakegoe “yoooo” is always spine-tingling.🇯🇵