Nude Staring Back, Loaded Antique Photograph of Model on Table with Wrinkled Fabric and Painted Backdrop signal flag cards There were late 19th c

There were late 19th c

as who makes better shoes

) These densely doodled end pages are the best though--pure visual stream of consciousness delights

imparting her with a great sense of strength and force (she rather reminds me of a figure from a Thomas Hart Benton painting

which I purchased on ebay in a largely unnoticed auction listing from a seller not typically dealing in older things

Nude Staring Back, Loaded Antique Photograph of Model on Table with Wrinkled Fabric and Painted Backdrop signal flag cards There were late 19th cI've held on to this one for a while, and will hold it in my mind long after it is gone, though I'd also be glad to keep it forever; as I write this I realize I am indeed completely obsessed with this photograph! My first thought upon finding it was of art historian Linda Nochlin, and of every art history course I ever took, especially those focused on postmodern critique; this photograph feels very much to me as though it should live on the cover of