images that haunt us
Herbert List :: Transplantation, Präuschers´s Panoptikum, Vienna, 1944. From the photo-essay on “Praüscher’s Panoptikum”, a grotesque chamber of horrors dating from 1870, it contained wax figures of historical personages, inventions, events, crimes,
medical abnormalities and anatomical depictions. It was already banned at this time and by the end of the war was destroyed by the SS shortly thereafter.
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Jacques-Henri Lartigue :: Florette, Paris, January 1944
Torment, 1944
Mae West as Catherine II in “Catherine Was Great”, 1944 / src: Museum of the city of New York
The dancer Valerie Bettis in Desperate Heart, 1944 (printed ca. 1982) by Barbara Morgan. This image of modern dancer and choreographer Valerie Bettis performing her signature work approaches abstraction. Her body is almost completely obscured by the cascading fabric of her skirt. | akron art museum
Robert Capa :: Drivers from the French ambulance corps near the front, waiting to be called, Italy, 1944
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