
Bizarre Santas

images that haunt us




Adolph Bolm and Tamara Karsavina in Schéhérazade, n.d. | src: Library of Congress
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Sandra Lousada :: British Writer Richard Hughes (Richard Arthur Warren Hughes), 1961, gelatin silver print. / src: NPG

Lucien Aigner :: Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia, in a railway station in Geneva, Switzerland, 1935
{Haile Selassie was Ethiopia’s regent from 1916 to 1930 and then emperor until 1974. He was born Tafari Makonnen in 1892, the son of Ras Makonnen, a cousin and close friend of Emperor Menilek II. Selassie was believed to be a direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.}

This is a fun and festive old Hollywood Christmas portrait with a
flirtatious pin-up style, 1938 / source: eBay
The press
snipe reads: These lovelies, ‘The Seven Cinderellas’ of Paramount’s
‘Artists and Models Abroad,’ are, left to right: Mary ‘Punkins’ Parker,
Dolores Casey, Joyce Mathews, Marie De Forest, Yvonne Duval, Sheila
Darcy and Gwen Kenyon.

Daniel Nyblin :: Herra Poppell with his dog (is the poor thing embalmed or stuffed?), Helsinki, 1878. / source: Museoviraston Kuvakokoelmat

David ‘Chim’ Seymour :: Monasteries,
Meteores, Greece, 1954. / src: Magnum Photos
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Fire Chief.
Oversized albumen print with corners trimmed to fit in an oval frame, ca. 1880 / src: Swann Galleries