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yakotta:

angrywomenoftumblr:

madamethursday:

[Image: Four gorgeous hand drawn illustrations of curvy, soft very femme women. The first shows a very light skinned woman with short brown hair wearing vintage lingerie, smoking a cigarette. The second shows a woman with medium light brown skin and brown hair wearing a cheong-sam style dress, with a feathered fan in her hand. The third shows another woman with very light brown skin and long dark brown hair with a tattoo on her arm wearing 40’s vintage looking lingerie holding a riding crop. The fourth and last shows a gorgeous mermaid with medium brown skin, long multitonal hair, and a bottom half that is a gorgeous rich red.]

sugaredvenom:

thelingerieaddict:

I really dig this style.

Also, black mermaids ftw.

kerosenedeluxe:

pretty!

Loving the slightly wobby outline. Few women are super-toned yet it’s so normalised.

These would make bad-ass tattoos

God I love all of these and amen to the comment above. I’m so tired of most illustrations of women showing them as though they’re super toned with zero percent body fat (yet have enormous breasts even though breasts are MOSTLY MADE OF FAT unless you have implants). 

These aren’t even what I’d necessarily call ‘fat’ or ‘plus size’. But I still think they’re great because yes, even women who are straight sizes have yes, a little bit of fat on their arms so that their upper arms aren’t chiseled but rather soft and a little curvy. Their thighs are not always rock hard, even when they’re very athletically fit. They’re going to have curves, rolls, bumps. 

In essence, they’re going to have FLESH. Actual human flesh. Not just a thin layer of skin over a body made of nothing but meat and bone. 

(I know there are some people who’s body types are naturally very thin and who are just chiseled looking ‘cause that’s how they are. Enjoy having a very privileged body type and stay the fuck away from my ask box, because as a big fat death fatty who gets told I’m the scourge of the world and everything that’s wrong with everything every day of my life, I don’t feel like hearing you whine.)

These are really stunning…

source

(Source: theartofanimation)

centuriespast: Rodolphe Bresdin, Deux Baigneuses au bord de l’Eau (Two Bathers near the Water), 1861. Kemper Art Museum

centuriespast:

Rodolphe Bresdin, Deux Baigneuses au bord de l’Eau (Two Bathers near the Water), 1861.

Kemper Art Museum

centuriespast: Rodolphe Bresdin, La Republique (The Republic), 1883. Kemper Art Museum

centuriespast:

Rodolphe Bresdin, La Republique (The Republic), 1883.

Kemper Art Museum

arts, crafts, and a very gendered ladies room

arts, crafts, and a very gendered ladies room

burnedshoes: © Marc Riboud, 1953, The Painter of the Eiffel Tower, Paris “I walked up the tower, maybe one hour of walking. Some people ask me, “Did you ask the painter for permission?” I said, “My goodness, no. To talk with them was to risk slipping and falling down.” I’ve always been shy and I’ve always been trying to ignore the people I was photographing, so that they ignore me. I’m trying always to take a better picture than the one before but I was not sure of this one. I didn’t think after I shot the picture that I shot something interesting. I learned from Cartier-Bresson what’s called “geometry in photography.” It’s not dependent on what you’d call a good photograph, but good geometry.” (Marc Riboud) Read an interesting interview with Marc Riboud from 1987 here. Contact Sheet: (source) » find more of Magnum Photos here «

burnedshoes:

© Marc Riboud, 1953, The Painter of the Eiffel Tower, Paris

“I walked up the tower, maybe one hour of walking. Some people ask me, “Did you ask the painter for permission?” I said, “My goodness, no. To talk with them was to risk slipping and falling down.” I’ve always been shy and I’ve always been trying to ignore the people I was photographing, so that they ignore me. I’m trying always to take a better picture than the one before but I was not sure of this one. I didn’t think after I shot the picture that I shot something interesting. I learned from Cartier-Bresson what’s called “geometry in photography.” It’s not dependent on what you’d call a good photograph, but good geometry.” (Marc Riboud)

Read an interesting interview with Marc Riboud from 1987 here.

Contact Sheet: (source)

» find more of Magnum Photos here «