Every match is a life in miniature | Andre Agassi
Eric Ravilious, Tennis (Triptych), 1930 * “It’s no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service,...
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Photographers [Oo] Calla Lily | Robert Mapplethorpe (1984-1988)
Robert Mapplethorpe, Calla Lily, 1988 Robert Mapplethorpe, Calla Lily, 1986 Robert Mapplethorpe, Calla Lily, 1984 Robert Mapplethorpe, Calla Lily,...
Days [ ) Eclipse | Virginia Woolf, 1931
Schoolchildren preparing to watch an eclipse, Maywood, Illinois, 1963 “How then does light return to the world after the eclipse...
Persons [ ] Just Kids | Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe at Chelsea Hotel, 1969-72
Robert Mapplethorpe, Self portrait, 1970s Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith (Neckbrace), New York, 1977 . “Everything distracted...
Persons [ ] Escape is a Commodity | Iain Banks, 1954-2013
Iain Banks, Map of the island from The Wasp Factory, 1984 ... “All reality is a game.” “It's a library,...
Persons [ ] The melody of an unknown language | Elsa Triolet, 1896 -1970
Elsa Triolet "All the other cities of the world are simply branches of Paris." "There's no place where one can...
On directing > Filmmakers | Jacques Rivette, 1928-2016
Paris Belongs to Us, dir. Jacques Rivette, 1961 ''Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed...
Photographers [Oo] Alexandra ‘Xie’ Kitchin in front of the lens | Lewis Carroll’s favourite model,1870-77
Lewis Carroll, Alexandra Kitchin, 1873 . Alexandra 'Xie' Rhoda Kitchin (1864-1925) was a notable 'child-friend' and favourite photographic subject of Charles Lutwidge...
Persons [ ] Seduction | Colette, 1873- 1954
Jacques-Fernand Humbert, Colette, c. 1896 “Love is not an honorable sentiment” “Youth is not the age to seduce, it’s the...
Easter in Combray | Marcel Proust, 1913
Illiers Combray, Aerial view ’‘Combray at a distance, from a twenty-mile radius, as we used to see it from the railway...