Atom Bomb Sky, New York, William Klein, 1955
On this bleak scene a phenomenon appeared the American existentialist – the hipster, the man who knows that if our collective condition is to live with instant death by the atomic bomb … why then the only life giving answer is to accept the terms of death as immediate danger, to divorce oneself from society, to exist without roots, to set out on that uncharted journey into the rebellious imperatives of the self.
—Norman Mailer(via seventyfourspecies)
