Fine Print: James Dean, New York City, 1955 Size:11 x 14 in (28 x 36 cm)

Fine Print: James Dean, New York City, 1955 Size:11 x 14 in (28 x 36 cm)James Dean, withdrawn and timid looking. 'East of Eden' had just opened at the Astor Theater after a celebrity studded preview. Dean neither attended the previews or the opening, "I can't handle that scene", so he boarded a plane and flew back to Los Angeles.

at long last

” read: “A peasant woman moistens the fibers of locally grown flax as she joins them in a long strand which is spun tight by the spindle

and playmates

Fueled by ideology

blur signs of belonging and allow silhouettes lit by a street lamp or a car headlight to be discovered

nestled amongst the daily onslaught of trauma

our fears and projections of what we were and what we can be

socialite and bohemian

a little girl holds skulls over her eyes during the Day of the Dead

Dawid Szymin⁠—later known as David ‘Chim’ Seymour⁠—was born in Warsaw in 1911 into a family of intellectuals

a subject that was widely discussed in the media at that time

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