Salvador Dali, can be seen deeply engaged in his painting here. This painting is called “The Face of War” and this picture was taken in 1941.

Louis Ferdinand Celine

Sailing into Yokohama Harbor, Japan, ca. 1920

Compared to the agony of the rich, that of poor people is like a bed of flowers. Death has gathered into itself all the terrors and sufferings of palaces. To die in luxury is to die a million times.

- Emil Cioran

A Disguised secret witness testifies in a courtroom ona drug case. Washington, 30 April 1952

“You utilitarians love everything useful only as a vehicle for your inclinations.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §174 (edited excerpt)

Rinko Kawauchi

“In the end one loves one’s desire and not what is desired.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §175.

Robert De Niro, Giorgio Armani and Martin Scorsese.

Sophia Loren looking at herself in the mirror at the Hotel Excelsior, Venice, 1955.

My metaphors are my wounds

Jacques Callot, The Death of Judas ca. 1634-35

Safety standards in 1965.

Françoise Hardy, 1967