Category: 1940s
Alvarez-Bravo · Luz restirada
Rose Rolanda selfportraits
Cat portraits by Edward Weston
The family of cats by Edward Weston
Hilja Raviniemi’s cats
Physogs card game · 1940s
Physogs or having fun with a very sexist, misogynist and racist game; not surprising at all from a game based on a “science” like physiognomy.
Physogs, a British game from the 1940s, is a popularized version of physiognomy, the art of judging human character from facial features. Based on sociologist Jacques Penry’s How to Judge Character from the Face (1939), the game consists of fifty-six printed cards and a key book describing thirteen distinct “facial-character types”: acquisitive-shrewd, dissipated, bad-tempered, determined, suave-obsequious, artistic-imaginative, credulous-impractical, magnetic, excitable-impetuous, self-conscious, crafty-self-centered, pleasant-cheerful, and narrow-minded-stubborn. There are four sets of playing cards: eye cards, nose cards, mouth cards, and type cards. (quoted from The Huntington Digital Library)
All cards and different compositions of ‘faces’ are available in high resolution at the Huntington Digital Library (link)