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cavetocanvas:

Will Barnet, The Bannister, 1981

cavetocanvas:

Will Barnet, The Bannister, 1981

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Noire et Blanche; Indécision (1904) by postaletrice on Flickr.

Vintage photographic postcard, circulated in 1904, undivided back, published by “Le bon éditeur” (sic), Paris, France. © Casas-Rodríguez Collection, 2009. Some rights reserved.

Noire et Blanche; Indécision (1904) by postaletrice on Flickr.

Vintage photographic postcard, circulated in 1904, undivided back, published by “Le bon éditeur” (sic), Paris, France.

© Casas-Rodríguez Collection, 2009. Some rights reserved.

cavetocanvas:

Will Barnet, Woman and Cats, 1962

cavetocanvas:

Will Barnet, Woman and Cats, 1962

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Is “pang” Dutch for “bang”? 
Pang, pang, pang! by the ghost of me on Flickr.

Illustration in the book ‘Miauwke’ (1924) by David Tomkins.

Is “pang” Dutch for “bang”? 

Pang, pang, pang! by the ghost of me on Flickr.

Illustration in the book ‘Miauwke’ (1924) by David Tomkins.

lemewsee:

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Des chats: images sans paroles (Cats: Pictures without Words), ca. 1898, Photorelief Etchings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

From the book, The Cat and the Human Imagination: Feline Images from Bast to Garfield by Katherine M. Rogers:

“Through his career, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen portrayed cats in every mood and situation. Although he could draw comic cartoon cats (as in The Horrible End of a Goldfish, 1884) or eerily impressive ones (such as the demonic black tomcat that advertises an avant-garde revue), most of his cats are privileged pets in comfortable domestic settings. Some spread themselves out on cushions, monumentally calm and supremely self-possessed; others exert every muscle to express their importunate demands for food or petting. But even when they are avidly eyeing a bowl of milk held by Steinlen’s small daughter, Colette, there is no hint of menace: the child is comfortable and the well-fed cats appear as confident friends rather than predators ready to seize what they want.”

yourcatwasdelicious:

dionne warwick

yourcatwasdelicious:

dionne warwick

Good times.
Ralph Crane, Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Good times.

Ralph Crane, Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

lacontessa:

Géza Faragó, Slim Woman With a Cat, 1913.
—via darksilenceinsuburbia

lacontessa:

Géza Faragó, Slim Woman With a Cat, 1913.

—via darksilenceinsuburbia

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fuckyeahchaplin:

Charlie and Merna Kennedy on the set of the Circus c.1928

fuckyeahchaplin:

Charlie and Merna Kennedy on the set of the Circus c.1928

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