Frida Kahlo by Nicolas Muray, 1939. Platinum print
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DICKENS
Gad's Hill: Charles Dickens with his two daughters Dickens had three daughters: Kate Macready Dickens ("Katey"), 1839-1929; Mary ("Mamie") Dickens, 1838-1896; and the ill-fated Dora Annie Dickens, 1850-1851, who died a fragile infant of just eight months of age on 14 April 1851, named after the heroine of David Copperfield , running in monthly serialisation at her birth. The two girls with very similar faces (and showing a strong resemblance to Dickens himself) are the first two in the list. [continued below].
FINNEGAN'S WAKE
Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it. Look, look, the dusk is growing! My branches lofty are taking root. And my cold cher's gone ashley. Fieluhr? Filou! What age is at? It saon is late. 'Tis endless now senne eye or erewone last saw Waterhouse's clogh. They took it asunder, I hurd thum sigh. When will they reassemble it? O, my back, my back, my bach! I'd want to go to Aches-les-Pains. Pingpong! There's the Belle for Sexaloitez! And Concepta de Send-us-pray! Pang! Wring out the clothes! Wring in the dew! Godavari, vert the showers! And grant thaya grace! Aman. Will we spread them here now? Ay, we will. Flip! Spread on your bank and I'll spread mine on mine. Flep! It's what I'm doing. Spread! It's churning chill. Der went is rising. I'll lay a few stones on the hostel sheets. A man and his bride embraced between them. Else I'd have sprinkled and...
Coltrane
© Chuck Stewart Photography, LLC. Photograph by Robert Kato Chuck Stewart (1927–2017), photographer John (1926–1967) and Alice (1937–2007) Coltrane Gelatin silver print, 1966 Chuck Stewart Portfolio, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture