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canwegohalfonababy:

i’m just going to leave this here.
because it’s pretty much the most gangster shit i’ve ever seen in my entire life.
(photo not credited—or, um, credited as “amazon indian mother breastfeeding child,” which, you know, not super helpful—found on the beautiful breastfeeding facebook page, which is worth a peek if you’re into that sort of thing.)
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mynaturalpregnancy said: i bet no people give her shit for feeding her kid in public!
This is a Kayapó mother and child from the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest and while she might not get shit for breast-feeding in public, her entire people is being forcibly evicted from their ancestral homelands in order to make way for the massive Belo Monte Dam, which will make thousands of indigenous Brazilians homeless while simultaneously destroying a large part of what is commonly referred to as the lungs of the world.
In other words, western moral codes aren’t currently this mother’s biggest concern.

canwegohalfonababy:

i’m just going to leave this here.

because it’s pretty much the most gangster shit i’ve ever seen in my entire life.

(photo not credited—or, um, credited as “amazon indian mother breastfeeding child,” which, you know, not super helpful—found on the beautiful breastfeeding facebook page, which is worth a peek if you’re into that sort of thing.)

Comment:
mynaturalpregnancy said: i bet no people give her shit for feeding her kid in public!

This is a Kayapó mother and child from the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest and while she might not get shit for breast-feeding in public, her entire people is being forcibly evicted from their ancestral homelands in order to make way for the massive Belo Monte Dam, which will make thousands of indigenous Brazilians homeless while simultaneously destroying a large part of what is commonly referred to as the lungs of the world.

In other words, western moral codes aren’t currently this mother’s biggest concern.

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2 months ago 1,759 notes

bremser:

Eleanor Callahan, wife of Harry Callahan has died at 95. She was the subject of one of the most significant portrait series in photography, which is perfect because Eleanor was anonymous to most people. There are probably more great portraits of Eleanor Callahan than of Marilyn Monroe.

The Callahan marriage was not the type of artist-muse relationship that they make movies about. It seems she made no effort to be a compelling model. She is never trying to create persona or convey personality, yet she is always present. So many famous portraits that result from the male-female artist-muse relationship are portraits of a dancing bear. In the Eleanor portraits a woman doesn’t need to be poked and prodded, twisted and overacting to be fascinating.

The MOMA’s web site has a fairly good selection of the photographs. The recent Steidl book on the series is wonderful. What’s incredible is how many genres there are in the series. Completely natural (in bed, naked with child), stark minimalist line drawings, a day out on the town, abstract expressionist deconstruction of the human form, bucolic summer poems, even some that feel like the New Topographics.

above: Harry Callahan, Eleanor, Chicago, 1949

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3 months ago 111 notes

taryncowart:

“Continual connectivity has led to a new sensibility. People move from a way of thinking in which they say, ‘I have a feeling, I want to make a call,’ to one where they say, ‘I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text (or post on a social network).’ Social networking nurtures a way of thinking about the self in which one constitutes a feeling by sending out for comments.”

- Sherry Turkle in Plazm. Holy shit, this issue is so good.

3 months ago 58 notes