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As in Jacmel, as in Montrouis…

Little has changed from these kodachromes taken in 1949. The same style, the beauty and ugliness and above all the same “hope” that can be felt in each corner of the peasants in the countryside. Haiti with a lovely glamour declined afterwards and became the sad sun rising everyday in muddy waters…

Love Scrapbook Graphic

I used the Scrapbook Max Software to create this graphic that can be used for personal use and to create Incredimail stationery.

Just click on the second image (small here) to get to the original. Comments are always welcome.

 

 

 

The Minuet and others

By Sir John Everett Millais, Bart

William Quiller Orchardson, R.A.

Engravings from “British Contemporary artists (1899)

Filigrees

 

 

Why do these filigrees from a 1891 Italian book remind me so much of the Haitian voodoo vevers…?

From Culture and Cooking, 1881

"Le Créateur, en obligeant l'homme à manger pour vivre, l'y invite par l'appétit et l'en récompense par le plaisir."

—Brillat Savarin.

FARTHEST NORTH

Sigurd Scott-Hansen

(From a photograph taken in December, 1893)

 

Landing on Yalmal

(By Otto Sinding, from a Photograph)

 

A warm (?!) corner among the walruses, off East Taimur

(By Otto Sinding)

 

A chronometer observation with the theodolite

Johansen Scott-Hansen

(From a photograph)

 

 

Observing the eclipse of the sun. April 6, 1894

Johansen Nansen Scott-Hansen

(From a photograph)

 

 

Plate VIII.

Moonlight, 22nd November 1893. Pastel Sketch.

A vertical axis passes through the moon with a strongly-marked luminous patch where it intersects the horizon. A suggestion of a horizontal axis on each side of the moon; portions of the moon-ring with mock moons visible on either hand.

From the book “Farthest North”

Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896

Author: Fridtjof Nansen

Contributor: Otto Sverdrup

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