the angels wanna wear my red shoes

liquidnight:

Raymond Voinquel

Still from Les Portes de la nuit

(1946, dir. Marcel Carné)

[From the Réunion des Musées Nationaux]

skibinskipedia:

chagalov:

Vladimir Nabokov inspecting a butterfly, Harvard (Museum of Comparative Zoology), Nov. 1946 -by Constantin Joffe

[Great to read: The Atlantic Online, April 2000 and some update: The New York Times, Jan. 25, 2011]

entregulistanybostan:

Vladimir Nabokov inspects a tiny Butterly
Via Tom Sutpen  [Corbis]

stilllifequickheart:

Maxwell Armfield

Three Feathers

1948

stilllifequickheart:

Pablo Picasso

Leeks and Crane Pitcher

1945

liquidnight:

Wayne F. Miller

“Simple” was a character the poet Langston Hughes used in his syndicated newspaper column. Upon seeing the man in this photograph, Hughes said, “That’s him.”

Midwest United States, 1946-49

Published in Ebony, December 1951

From Wayne F. Miller: Photographs 1942-1958

oldhollywood:

The Three Witches in Macbeth (1948, dir. Orson Welles)

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

oldhollywood:

Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity (1946, dir. Billy Wilder, based on the novel by James M. Cain)

I knew then what I had done. I had killed a man. I had killed a man to get a woman. I had put myself in her power, so there was one person in the world that could point a finger at me, and I would have to die. I had done all that for her, and I never wanted to see her again as long as I lived.

That’s all it takes, one drop of fear, to curdle love into hate.

- James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

liquidnight:

Wayne F. Miller

Hiroshima, Japan, August 1945

Japanese soldiers and civilians crowd trains to Tokyo at a Hiroshima station after the demobilization of the Japanese army.

From Wayne F. Miller: Photographs 1942-1958

liquidnight:

Rebecca Lepkoff

342 Cherry Street

New York, 1947

From Life on the Lower East Side: Photographs By Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950

skibinskipedia:

dirtyteeth: Tsuguhara Foujita, At The Cafe, 1949.