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Emanuele Scorcelletti is known above all as a photographer focused on international figures of cinema and fashion, on reportage and fashion editorials, but not long ago a new series of his works appeared, entitled Elegia Fantastica…

Scorcelletti formed his style under the influence of the aesthetics of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mario Giacomelli, and in the end his search for rigour and geometric perfection led him to a new photographic expression, free of templates and leaving room for poetry. Through light, shadow, nature and landscape he

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Michèle Laroque, a car accident at 19 and her path to acting through the conservatoire

Michèle Laroque, I think everyone will remember this actress: at 19 she was in a car crash, and, with multiple fractures, the girl, who had loved sport and dancing, found herself bedridden for a long time. She was able to walk again only after two years. At that time the

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The cover of Bryan Ferry's album Olympia with Kate Moss is a reference to Édouard Manet's painting "Olympia"

The cover of Bryan Ferry's album Olympia with Kate Moss is a reference to Édouard Manet's painting "Olympia". The musician says he wanted to convey the spirit of the picture without copying the pose. Doubtful, of course. The resemblance is, in truth, nil. Presumably

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A Reminder to One and All

Paris · People · Pop Culture

Walt Disney in Paris in 1935 and the Norman origin of his surname

Walt Disney in Paris on the Place de la Concorde in 1935 recalls the French origin of his surname, which was originally d'Isigny. The name derives from that of the town of Isigny in Normandy. Walt Disney's ancestors were Norman French who emigrated to England, and

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Princess Diana's younger brother has published a photograph from 1 July 1967, when, for Diana's sixth birthday party, their father, Earl Spencer, delighted the children by inviting Bert the camel from Peterborough Zoo to the estate

Brass helmet topped with a gilded crowned double-headed eagle, with a star badge and a colored rosette on the side. It stands on a wooden block against a grey background.

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Ceremonial helmet with a gilded double-headed eagle on a wooden stand

Cinema · Books · Observations

Russian Guards helmet held by Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh in the 1960 film “Candide”

In the 1960 French film adaptation of Voltaire's "Candide, or Optimism" I noticed an interesting detail. In the twentieth-century version, Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh lives not in Westphalia but somewhere a few steps between Alsace and Lorraine, and this time he, like previous generations of

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums

Philips Galle's Alchemist after a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder: a man sinking into utter insignificance and ruin, driven by the wish to grow rich quickly in the fields of alchemical transmutation

Philips Galle's Alchemist after a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder: a man sinking into utter insignificance and ruin, driven by the wish to grow rich quickly in the fields of alchemical transmutation. Instead of turning lead into gold, the experiments of the philosopher's stone, as

Art · Moscow · Museums

Athena and the Serpent

A cast from the Pushkin Museum

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Yesterday Sistema Gallery opened three exhibitions at once, to mark the gallery's third birthday

Yesterday Sistema Gallery opened three exhibitions at once, to mark the gallery's third birthday. The project that impressed me most was Daria Pasechnik's "Posts from Nowhere", done in an enchanted, fairy-tale style. The artist explains that she is exploring the longing for visual

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