"that is what all of this is - all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us...That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 - same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
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Office by Alex Penny"every picture tells a story don't it"
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“ Bob Carlos Clarke. From «The Agony & The Extasy». 1994
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Bob Carlos Clarke. From «The Agony & The Extasy». 1994
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Robert Frank
New Year’s Eve
Paris
1950
Seriously, if you love harmony, if you love Patti Smith, then you gotta watch this. These girls made Patti cry with their performance of Dancing Barefoot. So beautiful.
Happy Birthday Patti
New York City, 1959. © Estate of Vivian Maier
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“ Frank Horvat. Vogue France, Hitchcock issue. Paris. 1974
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Frank Horvat. Vogue France, Hitchcock issue. Paris. 1974
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Saul Leiter
Mary, c.1947
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Getting Mighty Crowded (1980)
My fave Elvis LP is probably Get Happy, and I like the b-sides just as much. This is a Betty Everett cover, written by Van McCoy
The first five Elvis Costello & The Attractions LPs remain the best of his career.
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Mink DeVille - ‘Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl’
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“I stood in front of this particular photograph for probably a full five minutes, not knowing why I was staring at it,“ she says. “And then it really dawned on me that the girl in the picture was me.”
"Robert Frank took about four photos of me without a flash in the elevator. I didn’t know he was taking them. And then when the elevator emptied of its ‘blurred demons,’” she says, “he asked me to turn around and smile at the camera. And I flashed a smile, put my hands on my hips. I hammed it up for about eight or ten frames.
He saw in me something that most people didn’t see. I have a big smile and a big laugh, and I’m usually pretty funny. So people see one thing in me. And I suspect Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac saw something that was deeper. That only people who were really close to me can see. It’s not necessarily loneliness, it’s … dreaminess.”
Sharon Collins, on the photograph Robert Frank took of her in Miami Beach in 1955.
The story of ATL’s wildest street party, as told by those who lived it.
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