Whatever your eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.
―Mary Rose O’Reilley. Originally posted by the amazing Whiskey River.
Photograph: Erwin Blumenfeld, Untitled, Paris, c. 1937. Courtesy of Her Sails Filled with Dream.
Erwin Blumenfeld, Spring, 1930s. With thanks to firsttimeuser.
Erwin Blumenfeld, “Dancing Model Behind Veil,” New York,1946
Erwin Blumenfeld, “Hot Jazz de France, Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli,” 1935 (from so30s)
“Partial solarization of a photo of a model close to a mirror is just one effect Blumenfeld uses — not to disguise a poor picture but to enhance a superb one.”
Erwin Blumenfeld’s Frozen Emulsion on A Journey Round My Skull
See some more works by Blumenfeld (1897 - 1969) at Bits & Bites.
Sleeping face of Marua Motherwell 1941
Thank you yama-bato
Erwin Blumenfeld, “Solarized Hands,” 1944
from: billyjane & frenchtwist:
Erwin Blumenfeld, Florida, 1952. Thank you, kvetchlandia.
Erwin Blumenfeld, “Line on Face,” 1947 from tartanspartan & kvetchlandia.
Erwin Blumenfeld (from Lotus Feet)
