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images that haunt us
The Boswell Twins – Boswell Sisters – Dancers. The Mirror Dance
(1939) / Music: ‘Rigaedin de Banun Bardenas’ / De Wolfe ‘Valsette’. / British Pathé

Russell Froelich :: Aerial acrobat performing on a bi-plane with a
race car driving below, 1920’s | src: Missouri History Museum



This image appeared in Lilliput Pocket Omnibus (aka Lilliput: The Pocket Magazine for Everyone) (1937-1938) which was a pocket-sized monthly magazine produced by Stefan Lorant, Hungarian photojournalist, author, and filmmaker who had served time in a Nazi prison. The magazine was known for Lorant’s juxtapositions of images for political or aesthetic effects. | source Flickr



French aerialist Philippe Petit holds a balancing pole as he crosses a steel cable suspended between the not-yet-completed Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, 1350ft above ground, New York City, 7 August 1974 :: AP

Firefighters in Japan show off their nerve and skill. Every-day Japan, 1909 / via