"Aphrodite of the beautiful buttocks" is an Ancient Roman marble statue, thought to be a copy of an older Greek original. In an example of anasyrma, it depicts a partially draped woman, raising her light peplos to uncover her hips and buttocks, and looking back and down over her shoulder, perhaps to evaluate them. The subject is conventionally identified as Aphrodite / Venus, though it may equally be a portrait of a mortal woman.
Portrait of a young cat. Three Little Kittens. 1938.
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The Birth of Venus
I have always lived violently…eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I’ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.
John Steinbeck
Dozens of Chadian technicals headed out into the desert after renewed fighting with FACT rebels
Mannequins enfants. New York City, 19 avril 1938 (Série Les Etats-Unis 1937-1961)
Photo: André Kertész
by Paul Chadeisson