Stencil Art – Steingasse Salzburg, Austria, 2017
© Marcus D. Niski 2017
Oh Soho – Series 2 — SNYC Tours
Francis Bacon — words and music and stories
Il 28 ottobre 1909 nasceva a Dublino Francis Bacon (1909 –1992), pittore noto per le sue immagini imprevedibili e grottesche, cariche di emozioni, che tentano di sondare l’essenza dell’uomo contemporaneo. Il suo caotico studio fu trasferito da Londra e ricostruito a Dublino attorno al 1998.
In the Attic: Late Night – Chelsea Hotel New York City
Late at night, I crept up to the top of the hotel staircase and took this photograph high up in the attic in the legendary Chelsea Hotel New York City.
© Marcus D. Niski 2010-2017
Modern Hotel Rooms — cakeordeathsite
We get along better Far away from home In modern hotel rooms. They become us No horror here Not when you are This high up anyway The Thirty Third floor Down below maybe With it uncertainties And the people Walking between Fearful terraces Realm of coruscating Trapped sunlight Down there Out of place We […]
“Best doors in the world” — Architecture Here and There
The Art Nouveau doors to the left offer entry, according to a caption, to a building called the Maison aux Grenouilles (frogs) in Brelsko-Biala, Poland. The doors are near the beginning of a collection of photographs labeled “Bejaroti ajtok: a village mind,” which arrived in my email inbox from my dear mother-in-law, Agnes, who received […]
Paris Peasant – Louis Aragon
“Louis Aragon guides us through the Passage de L’Opéra, imaginatively exploring the allure of various establishments found in the covered arcades, including seedy lodging houses, cafés, hairdressing salons, public baths, theatres, washrooms and quaint specialist shops selling such items as handkerchiefs, walking sticks, and exotic stamps. He evokes the ambiguity of these places, their pleasures and secrets: ‘the ephemeral, the ghostly landscape of damnable pleasures and professions’. Aragon playfully opens up the arcades as diverse laboratories of sensations against what he sees as respectable, inoffensive bourgeoisie sensibilities. The passageway becomes a ‘method’ for loosening inhibitions, revealing both the shadowy and bright secrets that can be found behind its doors. In his stroll through Passage de L’Opéra the public baths and brothel are described in terms of ‘other places’, different worlds secreted in the heart of Paris, and when he moves out to the district of Butts-Chaumont, Aragon’s description and celebration of gardens and parks likewise become zones of mystery and enchantment. Gardens become places of, and for, dreams and mad invention. Parks, particularly at night, become places of sensual delight and lurking danger.”
Review of Peter Aragon’s Paris Peasant by Peter Johnson (12 February 2014) via http://www.heterotopiastudies.com/paris-peasant-aragon/
Page Image from A Rare Hardcover Edition of Paris Peasant. Photography by Marcus D. Niski © 2004-2017
Page Image from A Rare Hardcover Edition of Paris Peasant. Photography by Marcus D. Niski © 2004-2017
Page Image from A Rare Hardcover Edition of Paris Peasant. Photography by Marcus D. Niski © 2004-2017
Page Image from A Rare Hardcover Edition of Paris Peasant. Photography by Marcus D. Niski © 2004-2017
Page Image from A Rare Hardcover Edition of Paris Peasant. Photography by Marcus D. Niski © 2004-2017
Page Image from A Rare Hardcover Edition of Paris Peasant. Photography by Marcus D. Niski © 2004-2017
Page Images from A Rare Hardcover Edition of Paris Peasant. Photography by Marcus D. Niski © 2004-2017
Smiling At Strangers — mokita dreams
This fabulous spontaneous street photography piece – Smiling At Strangers – was put together by Ieva Kambarovaite and posted on her blog at mokitadreams.com –
“Sat in a coffee shop, watching the world and taking pictures of strangers. Who knew? They smiled. Big and genuine smiles. Brits are not so miserable after all (got to work on my sarcasm). I hope you have a great day and I hope you smile at strangers. Surprise Harmony…”
Illustrating Streets of the World: The Art of Jeremy Graboyes — Discover
Meet J.S. Graboyes, an illustrator of streets and urban scenes …
via Illustrating Streets of the World: The Art of Jeremy Graboyes — Discover
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