Beauty and Eros

Simon Wald Lasowski. For a special issue of Blend magazine, various photographers were asked to photograph the same model on the theme of “Beauty and Eros”. With slapstick elements of ugliness and inspiration from fairy tales (the attractive and repelling witch), I wanted to show that beauty can be in the imperfections. VIA: –UNSCATHED CORPSE

Salvador Dalí’s illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy

Many artists have illustrated Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy since it was penned at the beginning of the 14th century — but few people realize that Salvador Dalí was one of them.