Liliroze’s Colorful Dream Photography

05.07.11

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Tags: art nudes, colorful, experimental, fashion photography, flowers in hair, hazy, masks, red, sepia, soft color, surreal, vintage

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Random image of the day

01.27.11

via silent-musings on tumblr

Tags: art nudes, bizarre, black and white, monsteresque, retro, sepia, surreal

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Portrait of a Criminal

01.20.11

Check out this amazing series of “photographs of commitment” from the archive of the Sydney Justice & Police Museum, posted over on the art blog La boite verte. Beautiful, timeless, and peculiarly expressive, these vintage “mug shots” are just brimming with the individuality and personalities of a motley array of people who passed through Australia’s criminal justice system back in the early part of the 20th century – creating unintentional art – offering up to these fringe subjects a sliver of immortality. I am in love with these.

{via the ever-brilliant Coilhouse blog}

Tags: 1920s, artifacts of the past, expressive, hauntingly beautiful, portraits, quizzical, retro, sepia, vintage

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Beautiful imaginary portraits by Travis Louie

03.17.10

Charlotte of the Woods

The Ghost of Laura from the Reeds

Sarah and Emmett

The Strangler

These are paintings, though they may look like hyperrealistic, gorgeously detailed drawings. Travis Louie makes imaginary formal vintage portraits of odd and surreal beings, monsters, and demure ladies from the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Duality/morphing is a dominant theme; many of his creatures are ungodly hybrids with human, animal, and monster parts or features. They are quirky rather than menacing. Their deformity is more humorous than grotesque. But the pieces that I like best are just depictions of women with a surreal atmosphere and a haunting, deep beauty, such as the above.

See more of his work here.

Tags: sepia, surreal, travis louie, victorian, vintage

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