Posts tagged 1940s

I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it.
John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings, 1949
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Srinagar, Kashmir, 1948 (The Man, the Image and the World, pl. 407)

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Srinagar, Kashmir, 1948 (The Man, the Image and the World, pl. 407)

Yakov Khalip, Fathers to the Front, Children to the Factories, Moscow, 1941

Yakov Khalip, Fathers to the Front, Children to the Factories, Moscow, 1941

Max Yavno, The Leg, Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles), 1949 [The Photography of Max Yavno, 1981, pl. 24]

Max Yavno, The Leg, Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles), 1949

[The Photography of Max Yavno, 1981, pl. 24]

“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince (1943), Chapter XXI (quoted from here; an interesting article here) Minor White, Devil’s Slide, San Mateo County, California, 1948  [The Eye That Shapes, p. 120]

“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince (1943), Chapter XXI

(quoted from here; an interesting article here)

Minor White, Devil’s Slide, San Mateo County, California, 1948 

[The Eye That Shapes, p. 120]

firsttimeuser: Children on the sidewalk, 1947 by Ben Meerendonk (via firsttimeuser)

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Children on the sidewalk, 1947 by Ben Meerendonk

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