The Dream Keeper | A poem by Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes and Dorothy West traveling to Russia, 1933 “Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamer, Bring me all...
1940s
Photographers [Oo] Nudes on beach | Herbert Matter (1940)
Herbert Matter, Driftwood II, Mercedes Matter, 1940 Herbert Matter, Driftwood I, Mercedes Matter, 1940 Herbert Matter, Mercedes, Nude, 1940 ...
The Artist’s Duty | A poem by Kenneth Patchen (1941)
Harry Redl, Kenneth Patchen with a collection of his painted books on the rooftop of his apartment house in San...
Liberty | A poem by Paul Éluard (1942)
Unknown, 1931 On my notebooks from school On my desk and the trees On the sand on the snow I...
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...
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...