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📷 Steve McCurry, Brazil, from On Reading ||| "Our doubt is our passion, & our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art." - Henry James

Feb 21, 2022, 8 tweets

Remembering Anaïs Nin on her birthday 🎂
📷 Inge Morath, Hollywood, 1959
"The rehabilitation of Nin is taking place not because her work has changed, but because the world has changed to make room for her work."
- @sadydoyle

Coffee with Anaïs Nin ☕️
📷 Inge Morath,Schwab's Drugstore, Los Angeles, 1959

Anaïs Nin by Annette Lederer, 1969
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

Anaïs Nin by Serge Hambourg, 1967
"Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous."

Anaïs Nin by Carl Van Vechten.
October 6, 1940

Maria de Medeiros & Fred Ward are well cast as Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film Henry & June.
Haven't seen this yet.

Gorgeous saturated colour in this portrait of Anaïs Nin by Eva Sereny

Another shot of Anaïs Nin in Hollywood by Inge Morath, 1959. I've never heard the story of this shot.

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