hands inspiration
Alfred Stieglitz. “Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands; &, Hands and Thimble” palladium prints, 1919, at MOMA ❤️ “Photographer and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz photographed the artist Georgia O’Keeffe extensively over the course of their long relationship. Though he considered his closely framed pictures of her face and isolated parts of her body—in this case, her hands—as stand-ins for her whole person, the totality of images he took of her over time offer a more comprehensive portrait of O’Keeffe.”
topo chico love
sometimes I setup a little work station in airports (grabbing the only @topochicousa there) & a stranger asks me what I’ve been doing & smiling about & it’s because I’m editing photos of some of my favorite people to hopefully brighten their recent low days, because grateful for my friend family & always photography forever 🍏💙
new years love
& now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
Rainer Maria Rilke
post the CASP fundraiser (click to view photographs from that awesome event), ringing in the new year with the best, Carol Ann Smith (@carolannchristine) with fresh orange juice for mimosas & vegetarian black-eyed-peas ❤️
(palm) print of Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart, born July 24, 1897, had her palm prints analyzed by palmist Nellie Simmons Meier four years before her mysterious disappearance. According to Meier’s analysis, the length and breadth of the famed aviator’s palm indicated a love of physical activity and a strong will. Earhart’s long fingers not only showed her conscientious attention to detail and pursuit of perfection but also revealed her ambitious yet rational nature. Her palm further reflected the reasoned and logistical manner of someone who considers all possibilities before making a decision.
Meier prepared Earhart’s palm print an analysis on June 28, 1933, and you can read it here, as part of the Library’s American Memory collections.
“There is a wide stretch between her thumbs and fingers and between the fingers themselves which, coupled with the shape of the nails, is indicative of an impatience over restraining influence either from individuals or the conventionalities of social life. The diplomacy indicted by the little finger enables her to conform to such restrictions for a certain period, and then the urge for physical and mental activity becomes so strong that she seeks escape by a flight in her plane,” wrote Meier in her 1937 book, “Lions’ Paws: The Story of Famous Hands.”