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| Walker Evans Caroline Blackwood ca. 1954 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| William Eggleston Memphis ca. 1971-74 dye transfer print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Etruscan Culture Ram's Head 525-480 BC amber Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Anonymous Italian Printmaker Label for Relic (fragment of the Holy House of Loreto) ca. 1820 etching Ashmolean-Museum-Oxford |
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| Walker Evans Caroline Blackwood ca. 1958 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| William Eggleston Memphis ca. 1971-74 dye transfer print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Etruscan Culture Deity holding Hares 600-550 BC amber Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Anonymous Italian Printmaker Label for Relic (fragment of the Holy House of Loreto) ca. 1820 etching Ashmolean-Museum-Oxford |
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| Walker Evans Caroline Blackwood ca. 1973-74 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| William Eggleston Untitled 1974 dye transfer print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Etruscan Culture Standing Female Figure (Kore) 600-500 BC amber Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Anonymous Roman Printmaker after Lorenzo Vaccari Street Vendors of Rome 1585 engraving (broadside) British Museum |
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| Walker Evans Caroline Blackwood ca. 1973-74 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| William Eggleston Untitled ca. 1971-73 dye imbibition print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Etruscan Culture Lion Head 550-500 BC amber Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Anonymous Italian Printmaker Antique sculpture called Marforio in Landscape ca. 1775 etching and engraving Ashmolean-Museum-Oxford |
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| Walker Evans Caroline Blackwood ca. 1973-74 Polaroid Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
The earth is disintegrating because its fuel is burning out. Fuel will continue to give heat for a while, but not very much, and therefore God wants love before the earth loses all heat. People do not think about stars and therefore do not understand the world. I often think about stars, and therefore I know who I am. I do not like astronomy, because astronomy does not give us a conception of God. Astronomy wants to teach us the geography of stars. I do not like geography. I know geography because I have studied it. I realize that the earth is one state. The earth is the head of God. God is fire in the head. I am alive as long as I have a fire in my head. My pulse is an earthquake. I am an earthquake. I know that if there are no earthquakes, the earth will be extinguished, and with the earth extinguished, the whole life of man will be extinguished too, because man will not have a constant supply of food.
– from The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, written in Russian in 1919, translated by Kyril FitzLyon and edited by Joan Acocella (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)