Depth Noir

Gaylen Ross • Dawn of the Dead, ‘78

Black-and-white photo of a person in a dark coat standing on a misty mountain ridge, with windblown hair obscuring their face and rugged peaks fading into fog behind them.

Black-and-white photo of a person with windblown hair standing on a rocky mountain roadside, framed by dark fabric in the foreground, with misty peaks in the background.

Masha Demianova • Georgia

Deeep love for HR

Thinking it's much like today's pharma - the side effects are going to just outshine the original ailment.

🩷🧡🤎

Black-and-white glam/goth band portrait of five people posing dramatically in studio lighting, with teased hair, dark eye makeup, and 1980s-style outfits.

Listening
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Hanoi Rocks • Until I Get You, ‘83
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Ph. Fin Costello

A dark, sepia-toned double-exposure portrait of a woman’s face and bare shoulders, layered with stark tree branches and distressed, haunting, dreamy textures.

Lydia Roberts

Watership Down, '78

Recall when Loudness got big and everyone was like "He's the new Eddie Van Halen!"
Love this song

Black-and-white portrait of a person in a dark lace veil, holding a bouquet of dried flowers, with dramatic shadows and a haunting, gothic mood.

Maria Nemm

Black-and-white, grainy image of a silhouetted figure in a flowing dress leaping in midair, with flailing strips of fabric, a faint chair under them against a stark, empty field.

Roksana Mical • Untitled • From the series ‘Playground’

Black-and-white photo of a hand dipping two fingers into a glass of water, with a flower visible inside the glass against a dark background.

Daido Moriyama / 森山大道 • From the book ‘LETTRE A ST. LOUP’ / サン・ルゥへの手紙 , ‘90

Black-and-white photo of a single worn black high-heeled shoe lying on the street beside maybe a garbage can, with a cigarette butt and a few small, loose debris close by.

Shomei Tomatsu / 東松照明 • Untitled • From the series ‘On the Road’, ‘62

Rook, head and upper body, portrait.

Morning.
Rook, Watching, Catherine Hyde.

I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked door. The fear is for what is still to be lost.

~Joan Didion
🎨 Jorge Mascarenhas

Reading
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Blake Atwood • Underground : the secret life of videocassettes in Iran
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Super interesting if you're interested in oppressive regimes and how people adapt.

Black-and-white photo of a large white sheet billowing dramatically through a shaded courtyard between buildings with shuttered windows and ornate balconies.

Andrew Clegg Littler

Black-and-white photo of three children walking across a grassy churchyard, one holding a large umbrella, with a cross, tall trees, and a church building in the background.

Black-and-white photo of a young girl standing on cracked pavement, holding a toy bow and arrow, with stacked firewood and an open doorway behind her.

Katharine Cooper • Kosovo-Metohija, '16

Black-and-white concert photo of two musicians playing double-neck electric guitars on a brightly lit stage, with a drum kit in the background.

Rush, 'Moving Pictures' album cover with red lettering on a black background above a staged scene of workers in red uniforms carrying framed paintings past a large stone building with three arches.

Listening
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Rush • 'Witch Hunt', Moving Pictures, '81
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𝅘𝅥𝅮 quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand 𝅗𝅥
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A high-contrast black-and-white portrait drawing of a man’s face, doubled and rendered with fine white lines on a dark background, looking directly at the viewer with a calm, serious expression.

Travis Somerville

Mixed-media collage on a white background featuring a dark, obscured portrait in a Polaroid-style frame, surrounded by typed text clippings and handwritten notes in faded ink.

Mixed-media collage on a white background with a blurred, shadowy full-body figure at center, surrounded by typed text fragments, handwritten notes, and distressed paper scraps in black, gray, and yellowed tones.

Minimal mixed-media collage on a white background with two monochrome photo fragments partially covered by bold black paint, accompanied by handwritten notes and a small block of typed text.

Sparse mixed-media collage on a white background with two black-and-white photo clippings, one partly obscured by black paint, plus small typed captions and handwritten notes.

John Carrid

Black-and-white artistic photo of a nude torso reclined outdoors, with an ivy vine laid across the body and strong light casting leaf shadows on the skin.

Allan Barnes • Neptunian Haze

Black-and-white street photo of a young woman (Jean Shrimpton) standing in front of a storefront with English and Chinese signage advertising hat cleaning and shoe repairs, while a person in dark clothing stands partly behind her; she holds a stuffed toy, and a sign at right reads “Expert Hat Cleaning 75¢.”

David Bailey for Vogue • Jeannie "The Shrimp" Shrimpton • "Young Idea Goes West", NYC, '62
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(Listening to 'Behind the Wall of Sleep' by The Smithereens, '86 - that's where my JS rabbit hole started.)

Black-and-white interior scene of a woman seen from behind, slightly leaning into a sheer curtained window in a modest living room, while a faint figure appears outside, also facing away, hands in pockets.

Michelangelo Antonioni • 'Il grido', '57

Black-and-white photo of a woman partially visible through a dirty, weathered window, framed by rough wooden beams in a dim rustic interior.

Rayza Roveta

Back of the album cover with a stark photo of the three over the LP's credits.

The Cult's album cover for their 1985 album 'Love'. Very Egyptian heiroglyphs in it's style.

Listening
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The Cult • 'Big Neon Glitter', Love, 1985

A black-and-white photo of a lone figure in a long dark dress standing on a crumbling staircase inside a ruined Gothic building, framed by a large pointed arch.

Nona Limmen • 'Solifugid', '16

Black-and-white portrait of a person in a leather jacket and dark gloves, crouching and holding up a stiletto against a plain dark backdrop.

Stephanie Chernikowski + Diamanda Galás
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(Slim odds but my wish she's the one who finally sticks him in the throat.)

Black-and-white photo of a young woman with short, tousled hair and a striped shirt, gazing at herself in a mirror while holding a cigarette to her lips.

Kyle Johnson • 'Rose', '11

Black-and-white magazine-style portrait of a woman (Jean Seberg) with a short pixie haircut, resting her hand against her face, holding a close to finished cig and looking toward the camera.

Uberto Guidotti for Daisy de Galard • Jean Seberg