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The Art of Nostalgia - Where Vintage Meets Contemporary
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Botany? No, this is Brutalism.

Karl Blossfeldt turned common weeds into iron architecture. Using a homemade camera, he magnified nature 30x, proving that thistles and ferns were the original industrial designers.

Full story in our Journal @ www.verve.art
December 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Berlin cabaret and silk velvet vs. Iowa cornfields and dust. On paper, Dietrich and Wayne shouldn't have made sense.

​She called him "my beautiful idiot." He called her his favorite Kraut. Three movies together, but the real fire was off camera.

​Proof opposites don't just attract; they catch fire
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984) - Yosemite Valley, 1960

#art #photography #anseladams #blackandwhitephotography #fineart
January 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
BRASSAÏ - Devant la Closerie des Lilas, Avenue de l'Observatoire, 1932

#art #photography #brassaï #blackandwhitephotography
December 18, 2024 at 5:39 PM
BRASSAÏ - Pont du Carrousel, 1934

#brassaï #art #photography #blackandwhitephotography
December 12, 2024 at 11:25 AM
WILLIAM KLEIN - Smoke + Veil, Paris, 1958

#art #photography #williamklein #blackandwhitephotography
December 8, 2024 at 5:40 PM
PAUL KLEE (German, 1879-1940) - "Small Picture of Fir Trees" (1922)
#paulklee #art #painting
December 5, 2024 at 4:20 PM
"Jeanne Hébuterne (Au chapeau)" (1919) by Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920)

#art
December 1, 2024 at 1:51 PM
WILLIAM KLEIN - Mary on Lamppost, Opera, Paris (1957)

#art #photography
November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
"Approaching Shadow" (1954) by Fan Ho (Chinese, 1931-2016)
#art #photography
November 25, 2024 at 6:06 PM