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Mar 30 2013
poete:

Girls Rifle Team, Drexel University, circa 1925

I aspire to be the young woman on the far right.

poete:

Girls Rifle Team, Drexel University, circa 1925

I aspire to be the young woman on the far right.

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sisterwolf:

Members of the Ovici family, a family of Jewish dwarf entertainers known as the Lilliput Troupe, who survived Auschwitz, perform on stage.

sisterwolf:

Members of the Ovici family, a family of Jewish dwarf entertainers known as the Lilliput Troupe, who survived Auschwitz, perform on stage.

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From The National Police Gazette, 1887.  ”Barnum’s Big Chance.”
A beautiful etching.  A lot of ‘freak’ photographs and drawings from this time period were quite extreme.  I don’t think viewers of these images actually believed they were real; they wished to believe.  Who wouldn’t? Look at that gorgeous elephant-child.  I want him or her to exist in the world.  (As rude as it is, I crave the feeling of their soft wrinkled ears under my fingertips.)

From The National Police Gazette, 1887.  ”Barnum’s Big Chance.”

A beautiful etching.  A lot of ‘freak’ photographs and drawings from this time period were quite extreme.  I don’t think viewers of these images actually believed they were real; they wished to believe.  Who wouldn’t? Look at that gorgeous elephant-child.  I want him or her to exist in the world.  (As rude as it is, I crave the feeling of their soft wrinkled ears under my fingertips.)

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“Five Members of the Monster Fan Club, by Diane Arbus, 1961.

“Five Members of the Monster Fan Club, by Diane Arbus, 1961.

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Mar 29 2013
From The National Police Gazette, a popular American newspaper, 1881.  ”A Newspaper Man’s Plight.”  
Another image of a woman wielding a whip!  Notice the man’s passive arm position, and the fact that he’s nearly all in black.  He is not the focus of the image; it is the woman and her lovely whip/legs.  Very sexual, very nineteenth century America.  A kinky bunch!

From The National Police Gazette, a popular American newspaper, 1881.  ”A Newspaper Man’s Plight.”  

Another image of a woman wielding a whip!  Notice the man’s passive arm position, and the fact that he’s nearly all in black.  He is not the focus of the image; it is the woman and her lovely whip/legs.  Very sexual, very nineteenth century America.  A kinky bunch!

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From The National Police Gazette (an American weekly newspaper), 1881. “Frail Women Don War Paint.”
There are a LOT of images of women wielding whips in this popular rag.  (Another one to follow.)  The readership was predominantly white and immigrant men.

From The National Police Gazette (an American weekly newspaper), 1881. “Frail Women Don War Paint.”

There are a LOT of images of women wielding whips in this popular rag.  (Another one to follow.)  The readership was predominantly white and immigrant men.

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From The National Police Gazette, 1881.  “Caught in the Shafting” and “Assaulted Him With A Razor.”
Note how their body positions are the same!  One male, one female; both in unbearably (fatal) positions that are nevertheless titillating.  I asked my students to write either about sex and death or about male/female sexual overlap, based on these images.

From The National Police Gazette, 1881.  “Caught in the Shafting” and “Assaulted Him With A Razor.”

Note how their body positions are the same!  One male, one female; both in unbearably (fatal) positions that are nevertheless titillating.  I asked my students to write either about sex and death or about male/female sexual overlap, based on these images.

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sigurdii:

Frank Cheyne Pape (1878 - 1972)
Illustrtions for Book of Russian Tales 1916

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Mar 28 2013
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I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
— Ingmar Bergman  (via adieufranz)

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