"Call me Jack-the-Bear, for I am in a state of hibernation."

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"Perhaps they’d crossed each other in the darkness, like they used to do in the old days of the living city. Happened all the time that someone you loved moved through the avenues, half a block over, one block over from you as they navigated their day, unaware how close you were. You just missed each other."

from Zone One by Colson Whitehead

Zone One Colson Whitehead

Saturday, January 7th 2012 12:07pm

“KEYANNA”

by: Adam Peditto

The Impossible Project Polaroid Portrait photography

Saturday, January 7th 2012 12:02pm

vintageblackglamour:

Actress Jane White in a 1941 photograph by Carl Van Vechten. A 1944 graduate of Smith College, White was the daughter of Civil Rights icon Walter White. Ms. White began her career on Broadway in 1945 when Paul Robeson helped her get her first role as the lead in Lillian Smith’s “Strange Fruit,” a story about a doomed interracial love affair. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt praised Ms. White’s work for its “restraint and beauty.”

Like Ellen Holly, she was frustrated with the limitations others placed on her as an actress due to her light complexion. In 1959, Ms. White originated the role of Queen Aggravain (to a young Carol Burnett’s princess) in “Once Upon a Mattress.” For this role, Ms. White was asked to lighten her complexion, lest she “confuse” the audience with her “Mediterranean” looks. She would go on to establish a solid actress in Shakespearean and classical roles from the 1960’s through the 1990’s. In 1979, her autobiographical one-woman show, “Jane White, Who?…”, was well received. Ms. White was also a cabaret singer and did work in film and television, including a small part in the film, “Beloved.”

In 1992, Ms. White wrote “Life As An Actress: A Mystery Story,” an autobiographical essay for Revealing Women’s Life Stories: Papers from the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. Ms.White died of cancer on July 24, 2011 in New York City at the age of 88.

Monday, December 19th 2011 12:25pm

"Nothing had been boarded up, there were no firefight traces or other signs of mayhem, and a finicky wind had kicked all the litter around the corner. From time to time Mark Spitz happened on these places in Zone One, where he strolled down a movie set, earning scale as an extra in a period piece about the dead world."

from Zone One by Colson Whitehead

(Source: colsonwhitehead.com)

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Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 11:42am

Amy Winehouse - Like Smoke (feat. Nas)

Nas Amy Winehouse

Sunday, November 13th 2011 11:58am

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22 days left! Support Harold Feinstein’s photobook retrospective on Kickstarter.

For over 60 years, New York photographer Harold Feinstein has been documenting American life from the integration of the U.S. military to love and fun on the boardwalk of Coney Island. His photos have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, the George Eastman House, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the Musee d’Art Moderne, and the Museum for the City of New York, among other places of note.

Have a look at a preview of the book on our site here. You will be amazed. Then head on over to his kickstarter page and donate!

vinta vintage black Black and White photo photography

Friday, September 30th 2011 1:56pm