We have only come to look

Paris Door, July 29, 1984, André Kertész

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Only you

Don't know what to make of the sudden slippiness,

The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant.

There's no getting up it by the words you know.

No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe.

We have only come to look.

New Year On Dartmoor (1962) - Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963) 

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急につるつるになった世の中を理解できないのはきみだけ。

目鼻が無くて、真っ白で、おそろしい、近づきがたい斜面の世界。

この世界を、きみにわかる言葉を使って組み立ててみせるのは不可能だ。

ゾウや、車輪や、靴の片割れなんぞで作り上げられるものじゃない。

わたしたちはただ見に来ただけ。

シルヴィア・プラス　－「ダートムーアの新年」より

吉原幸子　皆見昭　訳

From a depth

Venetian Twilight, 1896, Walter Launt Palmer (1854 - 1932)

- Watercolor, Gouache, and Crayon on Composition board - 

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“ I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”

― Anaïs Nin

”わたしは人魚になるべきだわ。深い海の底に恐怖は感じない。むしろ浅瀬の、上辺の生を怖れるの。”

ー アナイス・ニン

That Day That Summer...

Carbonia, Cagliari, 1950, Federico Patellani. Italian (1911 - 1977)

” We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten ”

Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950) 

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” 私たちはかつての日々を憶えてはいない。私たちが思い出せるのは瞬間瞬間だけだ。

人生の真の豊かさは私たちが忘れてしまった思い出の裡に眠っている。”

チェーザレ・パヴェーゼ

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If I had to choose just one day

To last my whole life through

It would surely be that Sunday

The day that I met you

Newborn whippoorwills were calling from the hills

Summer was a-coming in but fast

Lots of daffodils were showing off their skills

Nodding all together, I could almost hear them whisper

"Go on, kiss her, go on and kiss her"

If I had to choose one moment

To live within my heart

It would be that tender moment

Recalling how we started

Darling, it would be when you smiled at me

That way, that Sunday, that summer

"That Sunday That Summer" © George David Weiss and Joe Sherman

Song by Nat 'King' Cole (1963) 

Side by side ....

Two sisters, 1610-1615, Cornelis de Vos. Flemesh (ca 1584 - 1651)

Untitled (Portrait of Two Girls), 1907, Rudolf Duhrkoop. Germany (1848 - 1918)

PIN-UPS by Bill Ward

 

Sunrise

Sunrise, Anton Prinner (1902 - 1983)

- Bronze proof with patina (Height 31cm) - 

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”I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall asleep when I'm awake. You know ? ”

ー Ernest Hemingway

Le rêve est une seconde vie...

  Country Bedroom, Niles, California, 1938, Sonya Noskowiak (1900 - 1975)

- Gelatin silver print -

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” Le rêve est une seconde vie” (Our dreams are a second life)

― Gérard de Nerval

” 夢は第二の生である ”

ジェラール・ド・ネルヴァル

Frantisek Drtikol (1883 - 1961)

Standing female nude

Le Repos, 1920’s

Nude, c. 1925

Untitled (Female in Landscape), 1901–1903

 Fotograf Frantisek Drtikol [The photographer Frantisek Drtikol] Tvorba z let 1903-1935

Published 1972

Doing nothing

 Schoolgirl at St Kilda Beach, 1952-1953, Charles Blackman. Australian (1928 - 2018)

- Oil on compressed card on composition board -

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“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

― Marthe Troly-Curtin

Do You Believe in Magic ?

 The walk to Paradise Garden, 1946, W. Eugene Smith. American (1918 - 1978)

”Children see magic because they look for it.”

Christopher Moore

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子供たちは魔法を見る。なぜなら彼らはそれを求めているから・・・

クリストファー・ムーア

Father and Son, Mother and Daughter

Hands, Maynard and Dan Dixon, ca 1930, Dorothea Lange. (1895 - 1965)

Untitled, 1962, Vivian Maier. American (1926 - 2009)

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“It is easy to become a father, but very difficult to be a father.” 

Wilhelm Busch (1832 - 1908) 

*

” 母になることは易しい。しかし母であることは難しい ”

山本有三『真実一路』

What those birds are called ?

 All good wishes from the neighboring people, Kaare Espolin Johnson. Norwegian (1907 - 1994)

- Mixing technique, light dimensions -

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"Doesn't anyone know what those birds are called?

"Oh yes. But we only know the names that people have given them.

We don't know what they call each other."

Hermann Hesse 'Rosshalde' 1914

We all need friend...

Sad Little Girl in Marseille, 1951, Lucien Hervé (1910 - 2007)

Seville, Spain, 1962, Edward R. Miller. (1905 - ? )

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“Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”

 'Anne of Avonlea '

― Lucy Maud Montgomery

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”ああ、時々友だちなんて必要じゃないんじゃないかって思うわ。誰もがしばらくすると私たちの生活から出て行って、後に痛みだけが残るのなら、友達のいない寂しさの方がまだマシだわ”

ールーシー・モード・モンゴメリー『赤毛のアン』

Sad Farewell

 Sad Farewell, 1968, Duane Michals. American, born in 1932

“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

”頭と心を持つ者にとって、完全に順調な状態というものがあるとは思えない”

ーヘンリー・ワーズワース・ロングフェロー

"Mon oreille est un coquillage qui aime le bruit de la mer" (My ears are shells, fondly hearing the sound of the sea) - Jean Cocteau

Blond Toddler Girl Listening To Ocean In A Seashell Wearing Teddy Bear Bathing Suit, 1950’s

Untitled (self portrait) (1979-1980), Francesca Woodman (1958 - 1981)

あのときの潮騒が、聴こえますか？

One more time !

Mauerpark, Berlin, 1996, Sibylle Bergemann. Germany (1941 - 2010)

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Swing 

Swing me, swing me, swing me round, 

I don’t want my feet to touch the ground. 

Swing me an hour, swing me some more, 

swing me until a quarter past four. 

Swing me till summer, swing me through fall,

I promise I’ll never get tired at all.

Eve Merriam (1916 - 1992）

揺らせ　揺らせ　もっと揺らせ

もう地面に足をつけたくない 

もう１時間揺らそう　それからもっと

４時１５分まで揺らしていよう

夏まで揺らそう　秋の間中揺れていよう 

絶体飽きっこないんだから

About This blog

Têtes de femmes en camée, Georges De Feure (Paris 1868 - 1943 Paris)

- Gouache -

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“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”

アートは家に居ながら「逃げ出す」ただ一つの方法

Twyla Tharp (American Dancer, born in 1941) 

Who are you ?

Untitled, ca 1947, Toni Frissell (1907 - 1988)

"Old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it’s not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see us, he or she would not recognise him – or herself in us, ‘Who’s that looking at me so sadly,’ he or she would say."

— José Saramago

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旧い写真というものは往々にしてわれわれを欺き、あたかもそこに私たちがいるかのような錯覚を与える。しかしそうではない。私たちが写真の中に見る人物はもはや存在してはいない。そして、もし、写真の中の人物が私たちを見ることができたなら、彼あるいは彼女は、彼、彼女自身の姿をそこに見出すことは出来ずに、きっとこういうだろう。

「あのさびしそうな目で私を見ている人は誰？」と・・・

ー ジョゼ（ホセ）・サラマーゴ

子曰く（Si-Notamawaku) / Confucius said

Young Child with a Black Cat, 1908, Nicolas Tarkhoff. (1871 - 1930)

- Oil on Canvas -

” The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. ” 

Confucius 

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もっとも困難なのは真っ暗な部屋で黒い猫を捜すことである。

わけても猫などいない場合は・・・

孔子

Bad Sign ?

Le Chat Noir / The Black Cat, 1913, Louis Henri Deluermoz (1876 - 1943)

- Ink and Gouache on Paper -

”A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”

Groucho Marx

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黒猫がきみの目の前を横切った時、それはなにを暗示しているのか？

動物もまた移動するということだ。

グルーチョ・マルクス

Heaven is under our feet...

Sibylle Bergemann. Germany (1941 - 2010)

” Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

Henry David Thoreau 'Walden', 1854

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” 天国は私たちの足の下にもある。遥か頭の上にあるのと同じように ”

ヘンリー・ダヴィッド・ソロー　『森の生活』

Dance

Tanec / Dance, 1985-1988, Viera Žilinčanová (1932 - 2008)

- Oil on Cardboard -

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“ Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it. ”

― Isadora Duncan. 'The Art of the Dance'

What Musician is ?

Arturo Toscanini

“ Which would you prefer to be a Conductor or a Pianist ?”

Granddaughter Sonia

“ A Conductor!, It is easier ”

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A.トスカニーニ

もしなるとしたら指揮者とピアニストのどっちがいい？

孫娘　ソニア

もちろん指揮者よ！簡単だもん！

Just want to tell you....

As some of you know that I am a Japanese. I think that my Tumblr (poboh's tumblr / a man with a past ) and this blog are liked enough. except Japanese people.

I'm gonna be trying to make the blog also liked by Japanese.

So, please forgive that I use Japanese on this blog.

Takeo