Above is a vintage photo taken in the concrete basin of the Los Angeles River showing police detectives standing near an unidentified corpse.

This is from a collection of about 2,000 photos taken by LAPD personnel between 1925 and the mid-1970s. This is a lonely end for a man, which the handwritten date tells us was today in 1955.

Neon Visions in the Night

Greg Hildebrandt

Yeah, I know I posted this editorial yesterday, but I love it so much and I found it in higher resolution without any text so whatever.

(Mystery in the Moonlight, from the November 2009 issue of Harpers Bazaar UK)

this is lovely

FEMME FATALES IN FILM NOIR:

Laura (1944) dir. Otto Preminger
Gilda (1946) dir. Charles Vidor
Out of the Past (1947) dir. Jacques Tourneur
Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) dir. Tay Garnett
The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks
Scarlet Street (1945) dir. Fritz Lang
The Letter (1940) dir. William Wyler
The Killers (1946) dir. Robert Siodmak

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
Nicolas Yantchevsky

The republic of desire, Jason Langer