A Private World

Tim Walker for Vogue Italia. November, 2008.

Last night, I had a dream that Ted took a hiatus from Trading Post to go back to photography. In my dream, I found an attic (basement? vault?) full of old, never-before-seen fairy tale and Lovecraftian paintings and illustrations, I showed them to Teddy, and he spent months translating the art we dug up into a massive fashion editorial. Ted was using a daguerreotype, a 19th century box camera, and my dad’s 35mm Nikon, and his studio was our living room, but wasn’t. Ted’s photos looked like a hybrid of Ted’s style of photography and Eugenio Recuenco’s. He eventually turned the project into a sort of phantasmagoria, complete with spectres and Pepper’s ghosts.

What did you dream about last night?

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Of Adam’s first wife, Lilith, it is told
(The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,)
That, ere the snake’s, her sweet tongue could deceive,
And her enchanted hair was the first gold.
And still she sits, young while the earth is old,
And, subtly of herself contemplative,
Draws men to watch the bright net she can weave,
Till heart and body and life are in its hold.

The rose and poppy are her flowers; for where
Is he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scent
And soft-shed kisses and soft sleep shall snare?
Lo! as that youth’s eyes burned at thine, so went
Thy spell through him, and left his straight neck bent,
And round his heart one strangling golden hair.

I adore this photo, and would love to know which fashion editorial this hails from.

Bathsheba, Lady Macbeth, Lola Montez, and Diamanda Galas in the Economist.

A Lover’s Gaze: A Vanity Fair photoessay on eye miniatures from the 1700’s and 1800’s.

Guinevere Van Seenus by Tim Walker. Dreaming of Another World, Vogue Italia, March 2011.