Images: © Kimiko Yoshida “Since she fled her homeland to escape the mortifying servitude and humiliating fate of Japanese women, Kimiko Yoshida – through what is called “self-portraits” – has refined and amplified a feminist stance of protest, cultivated and distanced from “current affairs”: against contemporary cliches of seduction, against voluntary servitude of women, against [...]
Categories: photography
Tagged: FACE, Head, identity, Kimiko Yoshida, photography, portrait, self portrait, servitude, woman
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- 23/08/2010 – 2:59 pm
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- By The Pandorian
As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind [...]
Categories: photography,word
Tagged: Akhenaton, body, courage, danger, dashing, feet, Fortune, Head, heart, Hedi Slimane, man, mind, rock, steadiness
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- 25/06/2010 – 9:56 pm
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- By The Pandorian
I’ve slowed the world down so as To watch him sleep in slowmotion An outstretched arm a dipped waist moves Imperceptibly on slo-mo And the world is at a better pace Climb in my head with a full belly Fizzy water and a lots and lots of snowflakes In bottles or packets I’m watching the [...]
Categories: exclusive,photography,word
Tagged: arm, asleep, bed, breathing, can't, Erick Soler, FACE, gentle, Head, J.L. Nash, male, man, movements, paradox, paradoxical, sleep, stickiness, tattoo, try, waist, wake, watching, worried
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- 20/04/2010 – 1:15 pm
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- By The Pandorian
And music too – dear music! that can touch Beyond all else the soul that loves it much – Now heard far off, so far as but to seem Like the faint, exquisite music of a dream. Image: Head of Apollo, recalling the Apollo Belvedere from the British Museum London. Marble, Roman copy of ca. [...]
Categories: film,music,sculpture,word
Tagged: Apollo, Apollo Belvedere, aria, dream, Ewa Malas-Godlewska, exquisite, Farinelli, film, Gérard Corbiau, Handel, Head, Hellenistic, Lalla Rookh, Lascia ch'io pianga, music, opera, Rinaldo, Roman, Rome, sculpture, Stefano Dionisi, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, Thomas Moore
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- 15/01/2010 – 2:27 pm
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- By The Pandorian
IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being [...]
Categories: music,photography,poem
Tagged: All'ombra di sospetto, allowance, Antonio Vivaldi, aria, beginnings, Bertil Nilsson, body, Cantata BWV 54, Catherine Bott, earth, force, Head, heart, If, king, male, man, nerve, New London Consort, nude, Philip Pickett, photography, poem, Rudyard Kipling, RV 678, son, spoken, triumph, winning, wise, your
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- 03/01/2010 – 11:11 am
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- By The Pandorian
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being [...]
Categories: photography,poem
Tagged: doubt, dream, Head, If, look, male, man, portrait, Rudyard Kipling, thought, treat, trust, Valérie Belin
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- 15/11/2009 – 5:25 pm
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- By The Pandorian
I have jewels hidden in this place – jewels that thy mother even has never seen; jewels that are marvellous to look at. I have a collar of pearls, set in four rows. They are like unto moons chained with rays of silver. They are even as half a hundred moons caught in a golden [...]
Categories: music,painting,word
Tagged: A Tragedy in One Act, Cesare da Sesto, Georg Philipp Telemann, Head, Herodias, jewels, John the Baptist, National Gallery, Oscar Wilde, Salome, Sinfonia in F major
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- 26/09/2009 – 2:06 pm
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- By The Pandorian
