Munition workers in line for their last pay in 1918, in Toronto, Canada.

sassyfrasscircus:

I recently started drawing a piece about physical memory that I ended up not finishing–I’ll probably return to it in another guise at some point–and decided to ink the first two panels to play with some different styles.

Like many people invested in old things (thinking of course of garçonnière), I love the history of objects, the way they carry memory and affect across time and space. One of my most treasured possessions is this gold bangle that I inherited from my Oma–one of a set of seven, for the seven days of the week that my Opa loved her. During WWII, they were imprisoned in an internment camp in France which was bombed. My grandfather, a toddler at the time, was playing with the bracelets in the dirt when the bombs started to fall, and in the haste of their escape, my Oma always said, she lost her “Sunday”. This was a story we grew up with–part of my family mythology. When I was given the bracelet, and slid it over my hand, I couldn’t imagine how they even got them off my Oma’s wrist. I always imagined them as a part of her body. So that’s what I had started drawing about.

—SassyFrass

so fucking good to read this when i’m thinking of quitting the internet. this reminds me why i stay.

buttonvillea:

(via resurrection fern: a little box of flax history)

 at first i thought this was going to be about flax seeds.

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OMG PIERRE TRUDEAU PAPER DRESSSSSSSSSS (via Pierre Trudeau paper dress 1968 Liberal convention by kickshaw)

sexismandthecity:

Emma Goldman is known as a rebel, an anarchist, an ardent proponent of birth control and free speech, a feminist, a lecturer and a writer.

Born in what is now Lithuania but was then Russia, in a Jewish ghetto, moved early to Königsberg and St. Petersburg, where she became involved with university radicals. Emma Goldman left for America in 1885 with her half sister Helen Zodokoff, working in the textile industry in Rochester, New York.

Briefly married in 1887, Emma Goldman moved in 1889 to New York where she quickly became active in the anarchist movement. She became one of the most outspoken and well-known of American radicals, lecturing and writing on anarchism, women’s rights and other political topics. She also wrote and lectured on “new drama,” drawing out the social messages of Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, and others.

Emma Goldman served prison and jail terms for such activities as advising the unemployed to take bread if their pleas for food were not answered, for giving information in a lecture on birth control, for opposing military conscription, and in 1908 she was deprived of her citizenship.

In 1917, with Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman was convicted of conspiracy against the draft laws, and sentenced to to years in prison and fined $10,000.

In 1919 Emma Goldman, along with her long-time associate Alexander Berkman and 247 others who had been targeted in the Red Scare after World War I, emigrated to Russia on the Buford. But Emma Goldman’s libertarian socialism led to her Disillusionment in Russia, as the title of her 1923 work says it. She lived in Europe, obtained British citizenship through marrying the Welshman James Colton, and traveled through many nations giving lectures.

Without US citizenship, Emma Goldman was prohibited, except for a brief stay in 1934, from entering the United States. She spent her final years aiding the anti-Franco forces in Spain through lecturing and fund-raising. Succumbing to a stroke and its effects, she died in Canada in 1940 and was buried in Chicago, near the graves of the Haymarket anarchists. via

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suicidegeeks:

Le premier “Self shot” de l’histoire

Histoire surprenante que celle du premier (auto-)portrait de l’histoire, celui du (chimiste) photographe américain Robert Cornelius. C’était en 1839 à Philadelphie. 

Ce qui étonne tout d’abord, c’est le naturel du modèle, son visage et sa coupe assez modernes. On croirait presque la photo prise en 2011 et passée par les filtres vintage à la mode… Et pourtant.

Notre homme et son matériel de l’époque ont dû suivre un processus de prise de vue bien plus lourd : sans retardateur, Cornelius s’est empressé de se placer devant son appareil et de prendre la pose juste après avoir découvert l’objectif. Puis a tenu la pose plus d’une minute.

Cette photo avait pour but d’exposer une nouvelle méthode de photo, alors plus naturelle et rapide que la technique alors en vigueur, le Daguerrotype. Le contexte global de l’histoire est très bien raconté sur The Daily.

Et soudain, nous avons une petite pensée émue pour la génération “self shot”, “mySpace angle” et “duckface” : vous êtes bien les héritiers spirituels d’un beau et brillant scientifique.

(par Lâm sur Lense.fr)

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 oh wow.

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to-the-moon:

garconniere:

dlpalinckx:

Pierre-Louis Pierson; Game of Madness, 1861–67

i’ve seen this image more times than i can count (finally with some credit)

This picture is of the Countess de Castiglione and actually she was the one who choreographed the scene (this shows only a detail of the picture).

“The masquerades of the Countess de Castiglione (1837-99) show a more transgressive element of self-portraiture than the eccentric fantasy of dressing up that many male photographers of the period displayed. In forty years of collaboration, from 1856 to 1895, with photographer Pierre-Louis Pierson (1822-1913) the Countess commissioned and created over four hundred elaborate self-portraits. They show her in a range of elaborate costumes, enacting roles from history, mythology and art. The photographs became more beguiling and increasingly bizarre as the Countess aged and allowed one body part or another to stand in for her as a whole. A photograph of her swollen, aging feet and ankles suggests that she was not completely vain, but rather aware of the fleeting and fickle nature of beauty as well as her own mortality.” in Auto-Focus: the Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography (by Susan Bright).

So, you see, for a number of pictures she was actually the author :)

thank you to-the-moon!

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