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]

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

liquidnight:

Carl Mydans

“Novelist Vladimir Nabokov looking out of a car window. He likes to work in the car, writing on index cards.”

Ithaca, New York, September 1958

[From the LIFE magazine Photo Archive]

liquidnight:

Denise Colomb

Picasso

Rue des Grands Augustins, Paris, 1952

[From the Réunion des Musées Nationaux]