7/28/11

only the dead stay seventeen forever

Photography by Nobuyoshi Araki

Flowers as memento mori.

9 comments:

purelovefashion said...

Beautiful. Flowers cheer me up. :)
Nice vintage-y shots.

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Zoobia Ilyas said...
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Zoobia Ilyas said...

Those are really pretty. I wouldn't mind waking up to the smell of fresh flowers every morning.

Sometimes the simplest things can be so beautiful.

Carolyn said...

you enabled comments again! awesome. i always love it when artists explain their craft, araki's mind is so beautiful

Anonymous said...

i like you lulu. your stories are pretty.

mon oeil! said...
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Amy said...

What gorgeous photos. Now I'm thinking about Stella McCartney's fruit prints for some reason or another. Thanks a bunch, Lulu. I love it when pictures end up reminding me of something else.

-Amy
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Nicole said...

I love how untouched these photos look, you don't find photography like that too often anymore.
As for the flowers, they are lovely.

little fish said...

Haruki Marukami said that in his book too, only the dead stay 17 forever....