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Bruno Barbey. Thailand. Bangkok. Marketing along Sukhumvit Road, selling orchids. 1994.

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Gloria Vanderbilt and Salvador Dalí at his Surrealist Ball, Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, California, 1941.

“For Plato, colour was as dangerous a narcotic as poetry. He wanted both out of the republic. He called painters “mixers and grinders of multi-coloured drugs,” and colour itself a form of pharmakon. The religious zealots of the Reformation felt similarly: they smashed the stained glass windows of churches, thinking them idolatrous, degenerate.”

— Maggie Nelson, Bluets