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Showing posts with label Filmset. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Filmset. Show all posts

Friday, 9 January 2015

In my own image

“Here I sit, forming men
In my own image,
A race to be like me,
To suffer and to weep,
To know delight and joy
And heed you not,
Like me!”

Goethe, Prometheus quoted in 
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, 1872

Enrico Prampolini - Still from Thais, l Perfido Incanto - 1916

César Domela - Ruth - 1928 
(at the Café Aubette?)

 Fred Peel - The vase and the Maid - 1935

Thursday, 16 October 2014

Beautiful Ruins


"Architecture, it's what makes beautiful ruins"
Auguste Perret
quoted in Jean Kerisel - Pierres et hommes - 2005


Tullio Crali - Cityscape - 1939

Erich Kettelhut - Sketch for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis - 1927


Edmond Van Dooren - City with Machines - ca 1930