Brtish poet Edward James, photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1948

#CecilBeaton #BOTD #Photography

@adaspota. Thank you for posting this! Edward James is a name more people should know. He was the #Surrealist patron of #Dali and #Magritte and the missing face in the mirror of Magritte's "La Reproduction interdite." I wrote an essay that's currently available through open access (thank you #JohnsHopkinsUP!) about James, Magritte, and #Poe's Pym, which is the book on the ledge in the Magritte painting. Here's the link to the Poe Studies essay: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/864936
Project MUSE - La Reproduction interdite: Magritte's Reproduction of Pym

@CindyWeinstein . A #surrealist with a passion for Pym courtesy of an unhealthy interest in #cannibalism #folklore thanks you gratefully for that link!
@paulcowdell What a fun "toot" to read this morning! Thank you for the smile you put on my face as I make my way into teaching my classes on #Poe. I look forward to seeing/reading what you post!
@CindyWeinstein I'm at present mostly tooting #folklore-related stuff and the personal vagaries that fall out of my head unbidden and unwanted rather than the #surrealist stuff, but ... y'know ...