Brighton Swimming Club in 1863 by Benjamin Botham
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Cocky sassy feminist glitterfag sub. western MA + SF Bay Area. They-nouns. See also: SmutGlitz.
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March 2, 2013
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January 1, 2013
Because the ballet tag features too many people of only one body type. Let’s not pretend you need to be a certain weight to be able to perform fouetté en tournant.
Wow. I had body image issues for years partially due to doing ballet for a decade. This is wonderful.
Also, it’s sweetly ironic because Russia’s most famous ballet company is called the Bolshoi Ballet—the Big Ballet.
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December 31, 2012
NY-based photographer Shinichi Maruyama created these lovely photographs using nearly 10,000 individual photographs of a nude dancer in motion. The abstract images remind me of Japanese ink wash painting, as if the figures were cread by the stroke of a thick brush, which is not unsuprising considering Maruyama’s previous work with water sculptures. Of the photos Shin says:
I tried to capture the beauty of both the human body’s figure and its motion. The figure in the image, which is formed into something similar to a sculpture, is created by combining 10,000 individual photographs of a dancer. By putting together uninterrupted individual moments, the resulting image as a whole will appear to be something different from what actually exists. With regard to these two viewpoints, a connection can be made to a human being’s perception of presence in life.
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December 31, 2012
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NPR:
Rosa, Charley and Rebecca are three of eight freed slaves who sat for portraits in 1863-1864 that were sold to raise money to fund schools for emancipated slaves in Louisiana. The three were chosen because it was believed their near-white complexions would draw more sympathy â and support â from a country torn apart by slavery and civil war.
December 11, 2012
November 8, 2012
QUEER POWER!
Wes Perry, Sissy Spastik, Darling Shear, and Mister Junior
Photography by Kiam Marcelo Junio, 2012
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October 14, 2012
A Great Day in Harlem - Art Kane, 1958
A Great Day in Harlem Survivors - Gordon Parks, 1996
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