Gordon Parks - Drugstore Cowboys, Turner Valley, Canada, 1945
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In-house favourite: David Hockney
We went uptown to look at Mayan Codices at Museum of Natural History & Metropolitan Museum of Art to view Carlo Crivelli’s greenhued Christ-face with crown of thorns stuck symmetric in his skull—here Egyptian wing William Burroughs with a brother Sphinx, Fall 1953 Manhattan - Allen Ginsberg
W. S. Burroughs at rest in the sideyard of his house looking at the sky, empty timeless Lawrence Kansas May 28, 1991. But “the car dates it” he noticed when he saw this snapshot. - Allen Ginsberg
Private Charles Chapman of Company A, 10th Virginia Cavalry Regiment (left) and an unidentified soldier, c. 1861-65
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Weegee - Boy Meets Girl - From Outer Space, c. 1960
Related: Boy Meets Girl - At The Astor
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Hy Hirsh - Harry Smith with his “brain drawings”, San Francisco, c. 1950
Young boy in Baltimore slum area, July 1938
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Walker Evans - Floyd Burroughs, c. 1935-1936
Cotton sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama
Morrissey wears Rough Trade Records’ promotional t-shirt that accompanied the release of “Panic” by The Smiths, 1986
A story circulated as the basis for the song is that days before recording the song, Marr and Morrissey were listening to BBC Radio One when a news report announced the Chernobyl disaster. Straight afterwards, disc jockey Steve Wright played the song “I’m Your Man” by pop duo Wham!. “I remember actually saying, ‘What the fuck does this got to do with people’s lives?’” Marr recalled. “We hear about Chernobyl, then, seconds later, we’re expected to jump around to ‘I’m Your Man’”. While Marr subsequently stated that the account was exaggerated, he commented that it was a likely influence on Morrissey’s lyrics - Wikipedia
Weegee | Arthur Fellig - Elizabeth Taylor, 1961
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