Ming Smith
Sun Ra Space II, New York, 1978
"A jazz musician has certain notes - & then they improvise. I basically improvise with what I have. If there’s low light, I deal with it."

Remembering Sun Ra on his birthday 🎂
At the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Hague
Photo: Frans Schellekens, 14 July 1990

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Deny Fear

@dean_frey

22 May

@ngadc

Mary Cassatt was born on this day in 1844
A wonderful portrait by Edgar Degas, c. 1880-84
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"I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of Degas' art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it."

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Remembering Mary Cassatt on her birthday
The First Lady & Paul Mellon look at Degas' Portrait of Mary Cassatt at the @ngadc, 1962

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Mary Cassatt Self-Portrait, c. 1880
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"M. Degas & Mlle. Cassatt are, nevertheless, the only artists who distinguish themselves... and who offer some attraction & some excuse in the pretentious show of window dressing & infantile daubing."
- Revue des Deux Mondes, 1879

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Deny Fear

@dean_frey

22 May

Dr. Otto Boehler
Anton Bruckner pays his respects to Richard Wagner

Today, Wagner's birthday, I'll do the same. Listening to the Tristan prelude:

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.
~Richard Wagner, born on this day in 1813
Sir Leslie Ward, published in Vanity Fair 19 May 1877

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Richard Wagner by Chevalier Luigi Bernieri, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print on cream card mount, 1881
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"Monsieur Wagner a de beaux moments, mais de mauvais quart d'heures."
(Monsieur Wagner has good moments, but awful quarters of an hour!)
- Gioachino Rossini

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Deny Fear

@dean_frey

22 May

Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt (Vaucluse), 1957
Out for a walk Willy Ronis discovered this scene, "as if a curtain had suddenly risen over a play by Marcel Pagnol. But there was a hole in the center of the stage." Suddenly the little boy came out to fill it!

Willy Ronis
Promenade de nuit à Venise (Italie), 1959
"I have fun looking at the store's sign, a somewhat naive tribute to the magazine for which I worked a lot. Nothing to add ; I'm not very good at multi-level reading."

Willy Ronis
Rue de la Huchette, Paris, 1957
I love Willy Ronis's commentaries to his photographs; he almost always has something interesting to say. None available here, but this outstanding photo can certainly stand on its own.

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