YOU prefer to observe the past on which your eyes are already opened.

BUT the Future is only dark from outside.
Leap into it—and it EXPLODES with Light.

FORGET that you live in houses, that you may live in yourself—

FOR the smallest people live in the greatest houses.

BUT the smallest person, potentially, is as great as the Universe.

WHAT can you know of expansion, who limit yourselves to compromise?

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LOOKING on the past you arrive at “Yes,” but before you can act upon it you have already arrived at “No.”

-from #AphorismsOnFuturism by #MinaLoy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966)

Loy was a British-born artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first-generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition.

Loy, a writer was known for her frank embrace of female sexuality and #FeministPolitics, joined the #Futurist movement in 1913, but she quickly encountered conflict regarding the movement’s perception of women. Her manifesto addresses those conflicts within a context of support for the movement’s forward-looking vision. Loy sees the female body as a site of resistance, and advocates affirmation and growth rather than destruction.

By 1915 Loy had left the movement, due to the #Misogyny and #Fascism she encountered there. Loy’s brief time with the futurists marks the greatest creative output of her career as a poet. “Aphorisms on Futurism” was first published in photographer #AlfredStieglitz’s magazine Camera Work in January of 1914

#Futurism #Poetry #Art #Literature #Feminism #Poets #Artists

Sports Illustrated - The Hamptons, Horses, Maidstone Club, Mending Nets, Miscellaneous, Picnic August, 1955.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)

Title: "The Hamptons" by Toni Frissell
Date: 1939-1943
Keywords: Sports Illustrated, The Hamptons, Long Island, Hamptons Beach.

Toni Frissell was an American photographer and model who gained fame for her work in the early 20th century. She modeled for numerous photographers, including Alfred Stieglitz, and photographed many notable figures of the time, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt's family.

The photograph "The Hamptons" captures the beauty of Long Island's Hamptons Beach during a summer day. The image depicts a group of people, believed to be mostly young women and children, enjoying the sun and water at the beach.

#Hamptons #Picnic #ToniFrissell #LongIsland #HamptonsBeach #American #AlfredStieglitz #FranklinDRoosevelts #LongIslands #unitedstates #newyork(state) #longisland #photography

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021705560/

Nearly all the great work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love.

- Alfred Stieglitz

#quotes #photography #AlfredStieglitz

Happy Birthday to the passionate and sometimes irascible Alfred Stieglitz, born #onthisday in 1864. He was a photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form.

#photohistory #photography #vintagephotography #alfredstieglitz #stieglitz

#GeorgiaOKeeffe by #AlfredStieglitz, born #otd 159 years ago.

#arte #art #artist #photo #photography #portrait