La Petite Mélancolie - Photographic Life

May 25, 2013 4:20 AM

La Petite Mélancolie (NSFW)
Is mainly a French photo blog which has plenty of excellent timesink in it. From Hannah Hoch to Romy Schneider and from Edward Steichen to Jorge Caceres
It is difficult to describe this site which sometimes verges on the pornographic but also has many pages on surrealists such as Paul Eluard and Jacques Prevert,
as well as other avant garde people such as the Czechs Karel Tiege and Milan Kundra.
posted by adamvasco (7 comments total)

Boy, that Hannah Hoch was something else. If you can get past the appropriation of African art (hey, they were all doing it in the Twenties), her stuff - as the only woman in the Berlin Dada movement - is fantastic.
posted by kozad at 6:39 AM on May 25, 2013 [2 favorites]

There's a guy who's name is "Prevert"? That had me chuckling, I'm afraid.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 7:35 AM on May 25, 2013

So instead of finding out a little more about Jacques Prevert you choose to giggle at his name.?
Brings to mind a quote of his:
"Eat on the grass
Hurry up
Sooner or later
The grass will eat on you" .
posted by adamvasco at 10:37 AM on May 25, 2013 [2 favorites]

Fantastic stuff, and yes, the time sink of it all is very absorbing.

Also, a photography blog that scrolls vertically?! Très magnifique!
posted by mosk at 10:40 AM on May 25, 2013 [3 favorites]

So instead of finding out a little more about Jacques Prevert you choose to giggle at his name.?

Hardly an either/or question.
posted by Rustic Etruscan at 10:45 AM on May 25, 2013 [3 favorites]

Ah the golden age of the photographic collage. I always thought Rodchenko's work wasn't quite titillating enough, you can count on the French to come through in that regard.
posted by Teakettle at 11:13 AM on May 25, 2013

The first post (Malika Mokadem): I kinda wish she hadn't gunked up those photos by 'shopping in the exact same old-timey photoplate border onto each and every one of them.
posted by ook at 12:09 PM on May 25, 2013