Days [ ) Phantom | Jorge Luis Borges, 1941
Alvin Langdon Coburn, The Octopus, 1912 "This web of time – the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect...
1940s
Desire Caught by the Tail | A play by Pablo Picasso, 1944
Desire Caught by the Tail is a farcical play written by the painter Pablo Picasso. In the winter of 1941,...
Peri/od/ical: The Record Changer: The Legendary Jazz and Record Magazine from the 1940s and 1950s
The Record Changer, February 1947 The Record Changer, February 1952 The Record changer, March 1945...
Days [ ) Stay | Samuel Beckett, 1949
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall in Delmer Daves, Dark Passage, 1947 Estragon : Don’t touch me! Don’t question me! Don’t...
Instant Views [o.] Hats | Herbert List / Paul Strand / Saul Leiter / Gordon Parks / Martin Munkacsi / Fernand Fonssagrives / Kansuke Yamamoto (1919 – 1957)
Martin Munkacsi, Nude in Straw Hat, 1944 ...
The Book & the Movie: The Razor’s Edge (1944) / W. Somerset Maugham | Edmund Goulding (1946)
W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge . The Razor’s Edge is the first film version of W. Somerset Maugham’s 1944 novel. It was...
Juliet & Selma Browner | Photos by Man Ray, 1940-1950
Man Ray, Juliet Browner, 1950 Man Ray, Juliet sadique accompagnée de sa soeur Selma Browner, 1945 Man Ray, Juliet Browner...
Race hate isn’t human nature | Orson Welles, 1944
Francis Miller, Chicago, 1957 “Race hate isn’t human nature, race hate is the abandonment of human nature. But this is...
Flick Review < Detour (1945) / Edgar G. Ulmer
Al Roberts: How far you goin'? Vera: How far YOU goin'? Al Roberts: That took me by surprise, and I turned around...
VVV magazine (1942-44) | edited by David Hare with Marcel Duchamp, André Breton & Max Ernst, N.Y.
VVV was a magazine devoted to the dissemination of Surrealism published in New York City from 1942 through 1944. Only...