Kiki de Montparnasse
This photographer is amazing--sort of the NanGoldin confessional deeply-personal style but not focused on friends. Elinor Carucci takes photographs of her family. In the photos she is the daughter and the lover, mainly, and one is struck by the way the family interacts with such ease in their nakedness and the camera doesn't seem to intrude hardly at all as they kiss and lie around and take baths and fight.
I must admit, I have seen a lot of this woman's photos reproduced in art magazines and they are vastly superior to the ones on the website, which are a bit grainy. There are a damn lot of them, though.
Enjoy, especially you, Summer Pierre.
In other worlds, I am seeing a lot of music this weekend, and a lot of family and friends. Which is good cause I am missing people right now. Not in a sobbing way though, in sort of a misty-eyed golden-light-infused nostalgic way.
Here's something that applies to my state right now, it's an excerpt from something I wrote a long time ago:
"We have been in this room for days now, hours pool on the floor like wax from the countless candles, mirrors reflect mirrors reflect me: lips a blood-cherry smear, eyes black diamonds of obliteration."
posted by The Sensualist @ 10:10 PM
4 Comments:
slice mince pies from children's thighs, with which to feed the fairies!
kiki de montparnasse is one of the most fantastic names i've ever heard.
Kiki was her first name, Montparnasse is the neighborhood (Paris) that she was notorious in. She was a model, a lover, and a nightlife queen. I don't know her real last name. Poor thing probably died in abject poverty. She was fantastic at one time though, and her image endures.
kiki was alice prin, born in burgundy at the turn of the 19th centuary, the Queen of monparnasse she died not in abject povert tho` preety hard up, her end hastened by booze and cocain mostly supplied by expatriate americans that flooded into Paris in the 1920`s .
she was a real free spirit, not a whore as she never charged for it, but went whoever she took a fancy to.Including several well known US characters who abandoned her at the end when she needed them most
plenty more accurate info on her if you take the trouble to search
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