Torn. I first saw this image in the Chrysler Museum of Art, in Virginia.  The image has stuck with me  and I come back to it on this day for reasons more personal, but universally the dynamic between the effects of war and pride is quite striking in this image.

This is a self portrait taken with Helena Kaminski (brilliant wet plate technician and photographer).

My grandmother gave me this button of her in 1st grade, when I was young, maybe 10 years old. On the one side it is her class picture and on the other is an exquisite mirror.  I have been trying to take a photograph of this for years, and finally I think I have one. Double self portrait with Margaret Morse.

“Born Lucy Schwob to a family of French intellectuals and writers, Claude Cahun (who adopted the pseudonym at age 22) is best known for the staged self-portraiture, photomontages, and prose texts she made principally between 1920 and 1940. …Rediscovered in the late 1980s, her work has not only expanded our understanding of the Surrealist era but also serves as an important touchstone to later feminist explorations of gender and identity politics. In her self-portraits, which she began creating around 1913, Cahun dismantled and questioned preexisting notions of self and sexuality. Posing in costumes and elaborate make-up, Cahun appears masked as various personae: man or woman, hero or doll, both powerful and vulnerable. Almost a century after their making, these innovative photographs and assemblages remain remarkably relevant in their treatment of gender, performance, and identity.”

http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/cahun

This photograph is wired with intensity. Really not needing explanation, I just love it.

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I love this image. I don’t exactly know where it goes, but I wanted to
share it with you this week.

Nature’s forces helped out with this one.  The camera was positioned on a hill
and by the time the shutter was released the front standard had slipped.
Thank you Gravity.

Akemi and I in a garden bed turned over and prepared for winter, in Rhinebeck N.Y.