At last my soul explodes, and wisely cries out to me: ‘No matter where! No matter where! As long as it’s out of the world!’
Anywhere Out of the World


— Charles Baudelaire

I was what you are and you’ll become what I am

Semana Santa in Spain.

Hanoi

Spider Web and Stables, New York, 1951

Italian-Americans playing cards in the street, NYC, 1936

This Canary Resuscitator was manufactured in the 1920s by Siebe Gorman and Co.; it was carried by miners to revive the canaries that were used from the late 19th century until 1987 as early-warning signals for potentially lethal gas leaks. The birds were popular with miners, and they were often treated as pets.

People say you can't drink your troubles away. I say you're just not drinkin' enough

NYC, Chinatown, 1947.

Waiting room at Grand Central Station, 1952.

Members of the American “Original Dixieland Jazz Band” testing the effects of syncopation on a polar bear in the zoo, 1920s.

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2005)

Minnesota Point from the hill above Duluth in 1875