Members of Steel Pulse, The Clash, and the Sex Pistols demonstrating outside far right National Front Leader Martin Webster’s house in 1977. London, UK. Unattributed.

Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, Louveciennes, France, 1932. Unattributed. 

“The Staircase”, New York, 1968. By Saul Leiter.

A very young Bela Lugosi as “Fernando” in a promotional shot for “The Red Poppy”, Greenwich Village Theater, New York, circa 1923. By Nicholas Ház.

Frank Zappa at home. Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California. March 25, 1972. By Ed Caraeff.

25 years without Frank.

Maya Angelou by Stephen Parker.

STILL I RISE

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don’t you take it awful hard

’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines

Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I’ve got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame

I rise

Up from a past that’s rooted in pain

I rise

I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise.

Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise” from And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems.

Simone de Beauvoir at the funeral of Jean-Paul Sartre at the Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris (19th of April 1980). Unattributed.

David Bowie and a biography of Buster Keaton, dressing room of “The Man Who Fell To Earth”, 1975. By Steve Shapiro.

Simone de Beauvoir, Chicago, 1950. By Art Shay.

Hattie Madders, winner of the “Most Scary Woman in the UK” title in 1883. She was the only woman to hold the boxing heavyweight championship of the world title. Nicknamed ‘The Mad Hatter’ she allegedly won the belt in 1883, stopping Scottish pugilist Wee Willy Harris in the first round of their bout. Unattributed.

Keith Richards, New York, 1980. By George Rose. (Re used for a denim advertising in 2017, because classics…)

Tom Waits, Santa Rosa, 1999.  By Anton Corbijn.