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lascasartoris:

“The Creole” (aka Portrait of a Negress – Hélène Yelin) by British artist William Patrick Roberts, 1923. 
The model for ‘The Creole’ was mixed race Londoner Mrs Helène Yelin, who also posed for a bust by Epstein of 1919. The same model appears in Roberts’s ‘The Joke’, 1923.

“Drawing over the Colour Line: Geographies of art and cosmopolitan politics in London 1919 - 1939”
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haygirlhey:

National Geographic- February 1998
The bride sits silent as female relatives and artisans attend to her. 
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mpdrolet:


Lower West Side Revisited, 1984-1986
Milton Rogovin
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vintageanchor:

“Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.”― Peter Mayle, Toujours Provence
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In #Jamaica where I’m archiving memories, fighting off jurassic type mosquitoes and creating life in a very hot climate.
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jwilliamwashington:

Schoolyard - Ocho Rios, Jamaica
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rawbdz:

Logo & t-shirt designs for The Film Talk podcast.
More at www.patrickfloyd.com
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cruello:

A garbled paraphrase of a letter written in 1845 by King Leopold of Belgium to Queen Victoria
▲.F.
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I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

—

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

(via monamade)

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