Author: un regard oblique

we do not own these photographs (unless indicated otherwise), we just share images that somehow haunt us. Please, if you share them do not remove credits or/and sources.

Francis Bacon :: Enlarged contact sheet of two men wrestling, New York, from the studio of Francis Bacon, circa 1975.

From: ‘The Image as Question: An Exhibition of Evidential Photography’ at Michael Hoppen Gallery / src: theGuardian

“An enlarged contact sheet of two men wrestling in swimming trunks and caps, originally taken by Francis Bacon in New York in 1975, nestled for years in a bin bag in the attic of a Mr Robertson
from Surrey, who turned out to be the artist’s electrician. (Other bin
bags given to him for safekeeping included personal diaries, cashed
cheques, letters and holidays snaps.) The photographs highlighted in red
were used by Bacon as models for painting particular body parts in
motion. They echo another exhibit, a 17-frame series of a nude man
walking by Etienne Jules-Marey, whose motion studies preceded those of
the better-known Eadweard Muybridge.” (quoted from source)

Valery Khristoforov

:: A young woman with cheat notes on her thighs, in a photograph titled
Cribs, taken at the faculty of journalism of Moscow State University,
1984. From: ‘The Image as Question: An Exhibition of Evidential Photography’ at Michael Hoppen Gallery

/ src: theGuardian

“The most mischievous single image here is Valerie Khristoforov’s
portrait of an anonymous young girl on a street with her dress raised to
reveal a condensed scrawl of notes that had been written on her thighs
before she took the entrance exam to a journalism course in Moscow State
University. Khristoforov happened upon the girl in a park as she was
writing on her legs ‘seated under trees near the statue of Mikhail
Lomonosov, the greatest Russian scientist, who gave the name to the
University’. She agreed to have her legs photographed under two
conditions: that he take the picture after the examination and that she
remain anonymous. He agreed and waited for an hour and a half for her to
return. She passed the exam and was never found out.” (quoted from source)

An alleged photo of the Bronte sisters (from left to right: Charlotte, Emily, Anne), 1940′s

“This
is a collodion photo with ‘The Bronte Sisters’ written in French on the
reverse, however this type of photograph on glass was only invented
in the early 1850′s, after the death of Emily (1848) and Anne (1849).
The researcher believes that this is a copy of an earlier 1840′s photo (a
daguerreotype). Sit back from the screen and you may
notice that the photo is on a slight slant and has the appearance of
having been cropped. This is how daguerreotypes were copied, at an angle
to avoid reflections
and centered to avoid marks at the edges of the original photo.” (quoted from original source)

thanks to apotigma for sending me this wonderful image

via
ladylabsinthe

/ original source: theBronteSisters

Source: brontesisters.co.uk