Letter Writer from Naples in 1870
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The famous statue of Emperor Augustus, recreated in color. Roman sculpture was not polished white marble, as so often depicted in film, but very colorful and vibrant. To the Romans, leaving a marble statue unpainted would feel lifeless and incomplete. In recent decades, the use of microscopic scanning has detected traces of paint that remain on many statues, allowing artists to digitally recreate how they originally appeared.
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- Jimmy Armstrong aka The Dwarf Clown at Clyde Beatty Circus in Palisades, New Jersey. From photographer Bruce Davidson’s series ‘Circus’.
“He was standing alone outside the tent smoking a cigarette,” Davidson upon seeing Armstrong for the first time. Dressed in a tux and a top hat he held a small bouquet of paper flowers, and “stood there pensively in the privacy of his inner thoughts.”
“He seemed to know that it was the inner moment I was drawn to and not his clown face or physical appearance. We became friends, although we seldom spoke to one another.”
“I found something in Jimmy that was more than loneliness, it was a story about surviving” - Bruce Davidson.
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Children in London celebrate Christmas in an underground bomb shelter, December 25, 1940.
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Back in the day we would hitchhike. Two girls would stick their thumbs out and when a car stopped we would all run out from behind the bushes and pile in the car. (I don’t know if I should have told this story:eyes:).
