Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Photographers' Gallery

Today we stopped into the Bert Hardy exhibit at the Photographers' Gallery in SOHO.

Persian bowls for lunch at Naroon Fitzrovia.








Hardy's Leica M3 camera, 1954

British actor Terry Thomas, 1954




Portugal, 1951

Hailing a taxi, London, 1952




Inside a rented flat, London, 1956


Piccadilly Circus

 

Saturday, March 23, 2024

4 Princelet Street

Built in 1723, the Georgian house at 4 Princelet St. in Spitalfields was open this weekend for an art show.


4 Princelet St.

























Thursday, March 21, 2024

The Cult of Beauty

The Cult of Beauty is a current exhibit at The Wellcome Collection in Euston.



Ancient Egyptian bronze mirror, 800 BC


Cosmetics entrepreneur Helena Rubinstein at her
Long Island factory, 1950's




Old-time grooming kit

Twiggy, 1967

Bust of Nefertiti, queen of Ancient Egypt from
1370 to 1330 BC

Death & the devil attack two women looking in a
hand-held mirror, etched 1520





Josephine Baker, 1926

Cast of 69-year-old woman's face before & after Botox






Bloomsbury Bun and Fitzrovia Bun at
Honey & Co Bakery ... so good!