"He smiled understandingly – much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced – or seemed to face – the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistable prejudice in your favour. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Part of photographer Carli Davidson’s “Shake” series. Carli spends much of her shoots rolling on the ground with her subject, getting in their skin as much as possible and encouraging them to open up to the camera.
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Charles Mingus—“Self-Portrait in Three Colors”
Mingus Ah Um (Columbia 1959)
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