Pictures of authors
I just saw this photo of James Joyce on the NYRB website. I'd never seen it before. I don't know why I feel so uncomfortable about it. Maybe it's because I'm so used to seeing Joyce in the common authorial poses that anything that strays from that is peculiar.
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You shoukd have called it rare pictures of authors OP
Joyce's eyepatch or Wilde's swagger for best authorial aesthetics?
>>6385866
Eyepatch
>>6385861
I really dropped the ball on this. I'm sorry, man. I was too captivated by Joyce to get the thread right.
>>6385866
Joyce is aesthetic as fuck. Wilde was just a poof.
Virginia Woolf in blackface. She's the one on the left.
It is a cool picture, what is he doing?
He looks like a depressed pirate that got invited to a wedding but got lost, had to go cross country, tore his good trousers on some barbed wire, had to borrow some slacks from a boating team. Now he is sitting around sad that he missed Angelica McTeagle's wedding to Samuel Carnform, only the most prestigious pirate wedding that Devon has seen for 50 years. But any moment now he will be interrupted by the Smaels family, and although they will laugh at his claims to be a dangerous pirate and significant modernist author, they will embark on an adventure together to reclaim Angelica's necklace from a desert island off the coast of Zurich.
>>6385887
YOU IGNORE WHAT THE WORD "AESTHETIC" MEANS.
>>6385930
I was using it in the /fit/ sense
Allegedly this is George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway. I'm dubious myself, although the picture was used as the front cover for the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Homage to Catalonia.
>>6385993
Bollocks, forgot my pic.
>>6386005
it's legit
http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/virginia-woolf-and-friends-dress-up-as-abyssinian-princes-and-fool-the-british-royal-navy-1910.html
Borges
>>6386002
Apparently Hemingway is the tall guy in the glasses at the back who can be barely seen. Also seen here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-84600-0001,_Ivens_und_Hemingway_bei_Ludwig_Renn,_Chef_der_XI._Internationalen_Brigaden.jpg
No one else there looks remotely like Orwell, the tallest guy in this picture.
>>6386044
what nutter
>>6386044
That's a cruel prank to play on a blind man.
>>6386044
I thought that fridge was two cardboard boxes, like Borges friends would take his money to buy him furniture and just give him cardboard boxes instead.
>>6386005
Black face wasn't considered racist until the 40's, mate. Back then the only racism was when the state isolated and exploited you for your race, like they did with the irish.
>>6386044
the absolute blindman
Young Mark Twain
>>6386044
If that photo was taken in Argentina, I wouldn't be shocked if it was just two cardboard boxes
I don't think the pic above is of Orwell, but this one is. You can see him as the tall bloke right at the back.
>>6386139
why? Explain
Pynchon
Does anyone have a photograph of Eliot where he doesn't look like a week old corpse?
>>6386162
generic insult, probably self deprecation. ignore that kind of stuff.
>>6385851
This photo was actually taken after one of his eye surgeries. He is actually as depressed and distraught as he appears...
Just think about getting eye surgery in 1922...
>>6386158
6'2"
Was pretty big back them I guess
>>6386158
6'2"
This is a video of the Eton wall game (1921) in which he played but it isn't clear which, if any, is him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSdlWtk1grI
>>6386176
He was also really poor and was having a hard time publishing his magnum opus
>>6386162
Argentina is third world country where refrigerators are cardboard boxes with ice in them.
Sorry if you've all seen this one before, but I still think Lovecraft photographs are the best.
>>6386195
>shitting on electrodomestics with no planned obsolescence
yeah, keep buying new shit you don't need and sucking first world dick.
>>6386187
yeah... he died in poverty.
His last words were "Does nobody understand?" very fitting... unfortunately.
Photographic evidence of Edward Said attacking the state of Israel. Yes, that is a ROCK in his hand.
camus was cool as fuck
>>6386224
>come one, get the camera ready
>make sure to get me before and after I throw the stone
>I'll throw another one so you get it portrait and landscape
>I love this cultural tourism
Prison is not fun.
Gabo and Fidel have been pretty good friends since the 50s
>>6386231
what is he doing in that crib? he's a grown man, that's absurd.
>>6386248
>skipping leg day
Just Leo Tolstoy playing footsy during a game of chess
>>6386168
light weight babay
>>6386254
Tolstoy is awesome looking
>you will never be this cool
>>6385851
Tolstoy and Gorky
>>6386272
what is cool about that? he doesn't even have the cigarette
beckett stunting in the summer
>>6386284
Boy, this Gorky fella sure loved taking pohotos with famous writers.
Tell me about Joyce. Why does he wear the eyepatch?
>>6386304
Which one?
Heidegger on rhe left?
>>6386102
oh man, that cracked me up more than it should have
>>6386388
how much should it have?
>>6386347
What a fatass. Probably on his way to the hamburger palace.
>>6386401
From a high school yearbook
>>6386347
this is A-1
>>6386304
Lol is that Lacan in the middle
>>6386206
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>>6386224
What a bigot!
This is Kafka at the holiday resort that inspired the setting for The Castle. He's the guy at the right leaning on the cane.
>>6385937
He's dyel by /fit/ standards.
But they acknowledge facial aesthetics.
>>6386411
Ye, he is on the very left in this one
>>6386441
ment to post this one.
>that creepy camus smile
What a handsome fella.
>>6386456
Is it really written 'le cunt' on that photograph?
>>6386433
You can recognize him by his ears and height alone
I just can't accept that Kafka was tall
>>6386463
>muh gay writer sappukei failed revolution
Actually I can't even mock that. He was pretty badass.
>>6386463
with his senpai
>>6386474
with his cat :3
>>6386464
where are you getting the N and T? it looks more like an I and V to me
>>6386485
I just projected it,most likely.
>>6386044
did he write anything after he went blind? like orally narrate to someone or something like that
>>6386117
yeah but his writing was shit
Here is Hunter and the Brown Buffalo
>>6387136
tfw they fucked
>>6386347
Best thing on /lit/ all week.
>>6386347
thinsp0
>>6385851
what is he thinking?
>i came to this field to surround myself with the perfume of cow patties but alas, they pale in comparison to my Nora's butt songs
>>6387262
>sweetie
>more dude author legs plz
>>6386297
He's relatively manly, has a fitting suit and looks hip.
You will never be this cool.
>>6385851
>loudnoisestriggeringmyautism.jpg
>>6386102
>>6387283
>>6387295
>has a fitting suit and looks hip.
>You will never be this cool.
lol at you fangirling over other men
you will n-never be t-t-this c-cool
>>6386231
Camus was shit
>>6386249
underrated
I always wonder if Jodie Foster write a book or not.
>Also, this picture made me happy haha
>>6386254
>leo stahp
>hey
>leo I mean it stop im trying to think
>hey
>leo!
>christian anarchism is the only answer
>stoooppppp
>>6387338
wrote*
>>6387262
Who's this old creeper up to shenanigans innawoods?
>>6387361
>tfw you will never have that instantly accepted classic author swagger.
>>6387361
he was a little guy
>>6387387
/newage/ coming through
2edgy4me Bill
<3
legs
>>6386367
He forgot to clear the corners on a raid, like some rookie hothead.
>>6386367
When he started to go blind only one of his eyes was affected, but eventually both stopped working.
>>6387501
He was so lucky to have a wife like Vera. I wish I had my own Vera!
Extremely rare Joyce and Hemmingway, spoilered for mild boy-love.
>>6387572
holy shit
>>6387572
This has to be fake
>>6387572
what the fuck
>>6387572
how is this even possible??
>>6387136
I'm not even gay but I would have loved to be Proust's boyfriend.
Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett both attending a meeting of Black Mask writers. Of the other writers in the picture, probably Horace McCoy is the best known (seated second from right).
>>6387611
holy shit anon find of the cnetury
>>6387572
black socks with sneakers, tee shirt tucked into cargo shorts
say what you will about DFW, but a least the man hadn't any talent
>>6387632
>hadn't any talent
Oh, please! He had loads of talent, just none that was discernible.
Foucault looks like such a badass. If he hadn't of died of them aid'ers, I think he might have risen to something like Karl Marx level.
>>6387508
his calf looks like a titty
>>6387688
rare colour photograph of Camus in his 20's.
>>6387750
>Camus
>Jewish
>>6387688
nice
>>6386206
>so vague so eluding
>i remember his cat is callednigger man
>>6386231
>smoking around babies
>>6386401
>>6386405
He hasn't changed a bit.
>>6388665
It was a long time ago mang
S-senpai, stop t-touching my nothingness
>>6388681
Curzio Malaparte
>>6386464
In hysterics.
>>6388691
What a fucking Judas Franzen is, he should get a dose of the herp from William Vollman's whoremonger fingers.
>>6388858
He was just like that. It was part of his peasants know best thing.
More rare pynchon
ie no tv pic or walking kid pic or sailor pic
>>6388671
No way is this real
>>6387107
Yes. A lot of his poetry is from when he went blind. He also did a lot of lectures - I recommend reading Seven Nights.
>>6388691
franzen legs was not what i meant
>>6386464
This thread had me in a wistful sort of mood but now I can't stop laughing like a retard.
>>6388886
It is
>>6387310
>other men
How do you know that he's not actuallyCamus?
#rarelim
>>6388994
YAAAAAAAASS! YAAAAAAAASSS!
>>6385866
joyce looks dope as fuck in the OP but super lame in every other picture
>>6385893
everyone knows about this one man
>>6388886
It is indeed, Pynchon told the photographer to fuck off.
rare goebbels
Camus, you trendy cafe existentialist.
>>6386181
>man gangbang at 0:40
Typical Etonians.
>>6387107
The Book of Sand was narrated orally to Norman Thomas di Giovanni, and is one of the best books of his.
Also, here's Kafka on a danish beach.
Based Borges and Italo Calvino
William Faulkner sunbathing.
García Márquez with a black eye from getting punched by Vargas Llosa.
>>6389179
I guess your can say Kafka's on the shore.
>>6389214
I guess. I considered posting that, but felt too stupid about it.
>>6388839
:-)
>>6385851
Borges pissing
García Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa
>implying anyone here even knows who this is
![c3b873f181dd80c6b473fe240d76878c[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/w1FjLE6.jpg "c3b873f181dd80c6b473fe240d76878c[1].jpg")
here's a rare color pic of Camus :^)
>>6389621
Young margaret atwood?
>>6389621
Young maya angelou?
>>6389621
Young harold bloom?
>>6389628
Young martha argerich?
>>6389643
you dun goofed
>>6386392
Presumably less than it did.
>>6385851
>The quintessence of experience when philistines misconceive the rituals of social gatherings...
>If only to be excavating sweat flatulence from my dear Nora at the present time!
>>6386044
This reminds me of the picture of a redneck party where a kid is playing a guitar(?) like a fucking maniac in the foreground. Borges looks like he's on Mars.
These are fantastic. I never realized how hilarious authors looked.
>>6386284
Looks straight out of a fashion magazine.
>>6389020
I didn't and it brought me some laughs so I appreciate him posting it.
>>6386180
4 u
>>6389214
>>6389179
I can imagine someone from /r9k/ doing that pose for a picture
>>6389609
I can smell the sea air.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rum7zbdmy6I
>>6388675
Tao took a picture of himself just for this thread
>>6389609
Castro and Sartre seemed to have known everyone
>>6390392
>>6386453
Lacan tryna pose like freud
only confirmed picture of him
>>6389886
underrated post
>>6390399
Freud hadn't even been dead for 5 years when that picture was taken.
>>6386297
Smoking isn't cool.
>>6386254
>>6386284
Tolstoy was a badass. Too bad he was so arrogant that he wanted to be Jesus in the end of his life; to be rich, a patriarch, respected and one of the greatest writers of all time was not enough for him.
Just look at those terrible eagle eyes.
And here is hes daughter speaking about him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGQu6lu41dI
>>6390837
wtf? yeah it is
>>6391263
Coincidentally it also doesn't matter to historians and people with more than two brain cells to rub together.
>>6391263
I don't think all feminists and sjw are the ones talked about on /pol/ threads
>>6390837
you aren't kidding anyone.
Everybody looks cooler with a cigarette
Without
>>6391297
with
Without
>>6391314
with
ehhh... the cig trend is dying down. Maybe it was cool in the 90s even, but if you look at culture -both subculture and main- cigs are no longer portrayed as something cool and edgy.
>>6391496
Yeah, e-cigs are the cool new trend
>>6391993
They seem lame though.
>>6391993
it's all about the vape life brah
>>6392051
No, they are cool
>>6391993
No they're not, e-cigs are for dweebs. They have all the vileness of cigarettes and none of their cachet.
>>6389609
Sartre is confirmed
>>6392060
>>6392065
Cigarettes are in part cool because of the fact that they kill you. Indifference is cool, and indifference to death is the ultimate form of indifference.
The other aspect that's missing from e-cigs is the element of lighting. Lighting a cigarette is akin to the cocking of a gun. It's just a cool action that draws attention. E-cigs are like weird midget hookahs.
>>6391496
>cigs are no longer portrayed as something cool and edgy.
No, they're portrayed as filth and poverty-tier. It's funny how quickly cigarettes went from cool to ok to pestilential.
>>6392112
>Cigarettes are in part cool because of the fact that they kill you. Indifference is cool
Indifference might be cool but paying someone lots of money to kill you is just stupid. Face it man, they're not cool anymore. They're trashy. They're like tramp stamps.
>>6385851
Who's that in the back?
>>6392134
They were always for poor people. But cool poor people. Like soldiers in the trenches hiding the light with the palm or hobo writers sharing a crumpled last cigarette or factory workers taiking a break from working their lives away for the nation. Poverty is less glamorous now.
>>6392134
Then what's become Cigarettes v2.0? We've already dismissed e-cigs. Reefer is inexorable with the defiant teenager crowd.
I figure cigarettes are a coolness multiplier. If you've already got inherent cool, it's going to make you cooler, but if you're >>6392134 you look like a fucking tool.
>>6387147
so true
>>6386405
FUCKING NERD!!
A young, digitally colored picture of the eternaly pure Jane Austen.
>>6387370
faggot
Here's Durkheim after a wormhole allowed him to return from the steampunk dimension
>>6386248
>gabo
CHAIRO
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>>6385851
>I don't know why I feel so uncomfortable about it
that's because he's trying tosniff his own farts
>>6389197
they are two goofy looking motherfuckers
>>6391351
my fucking nig nog
>>6392252
>Realmente dice "Chairo"
>>6386347
Real writers have curves.
>>6387370
dem calves doe
>>6392264
he is fucking blind
>>6392562
It would be extremely distasteful
>>6385918
noice
>>6389609
All these pics of sartre doing stuff with castro make me think they had adventures and explored mysterious islands and found treasures while talking about patrician stuff
