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Women use compact mirrors in packed crowd to catch sight of the queen in London, June 1966. Photo by James P. Blair.
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Mom Maria from the PowderBox Girls by Mimi Berlin
Mom Maria from the PowderBox Girls by Mimi Berlin
Mom Maria is one of the PowderBoxGirls made by Mimi Berlin. Like all the other women in this series he has her own story; This is Maria, she is a secluded person and does her job at night in an anonymous way; she covers her face with latex. Maria was a stay-at-home mom by day, but her son just died. She is still in mourning so she visits his grave most of the time, Actually, she visits every day and brings flowers.
Mom Maria, 2016, Mixed media (plastic cube, 1920s porcelain halfdoll, marked ‘foreign’. Compact powder box ‘Vogue’ 1970s, petit trinketbox with portrait of a boy, latex, oversized pin.) 10 x 10 cm. Continue reading
Won Kim Enclosed: Living Small
Won Kim Enclosed: Living Small
Kiyoshi from Japan
Daniel from the USA
Kaku from Japan
Jim from The Netherlands
Ai from Japan
Photographer Won Kim shot these portraits of the guests staying (short stay visitors and permanent residents) at a D.I.Y. hotel (No, it’s not a “theme hotel” it just looks like it’s made by a non-builder) in Arakawa-ku, a county in northeastern Tokyo.
The unnamed hotel is situated in an office building, taking up one floor. (it looks more like half a floor, as in the movie Being John Malkovich; or maybe the cubicles are stacked?)
We tried to book this “hotel” but couldn’t find it on the web. Never mind, we obviously don’t wanna sleep there anyways, would you?
Won Kim DID sleep there and went back, in 2014, to take these portraits for his project Enclosed: Living Small read all about that here and here. Make sure you do, it’s interesting.
(images Won Kim©)
Micro Cars from the Fifties
Micro Cars from the Fifties
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1959-nobel-200
1950-bond-minicar-mk-a
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1955-inter-175a-berline
How cute are these tiny cars?! They are one seaters, especially hot in the fifties of the previous century, built for driving in the city. A Fiat 500 could be considered as a microcar as well….See the Largest Collection of Microcars In The World HERE
(via/read more at https://classiccarweekly.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/microcar-mondays-pt-v/)