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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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cruello:

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

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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