The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. ~Italo Calvino
Commonplace book of a teacher, poet, and counselor.
brassaï, from la pluie sans parapluie
thanks luzfosca
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The Open Window
First Ave and 36th St, circa 1910-1911
Platinum print
From New York to Hollywood: The Photography of Karl Struss
Woman at Window
New York City, 1947
From Jerome Liebling: Photographs
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L’Atelier de Picasso [Picasso’s Studio]
Rue des Grands-Augustins, Paris 6e, May 9, 1944
From Brassaï, Paris
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André Kertész, Figure and column with street lamp, 1925
(thanks m3zzaluna)
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Banks of the river Seine
Paris, 1936
From Henri Cartier-Bresson: Scrapbook