Karin Székessy :: Portrait of Jan Voss, 1968 / source: grauwert.de
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Tag: weird
Radiology Nurse technician in Protective Gear, WWI, France, 1918 / src: History Porn
Frances Benjamin Johnston :: Sailors Dancing on the Olympia, USA, 1899 / src: L. of Congress
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Cabinet Card of an unidentified contortionist / performer. No photographer credit. / source: atypical art on Flickr
Frogman in a basin of the Rond-Point des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1970.
(Roger Viollet Agency) / src: paris-d-antan
Here, Helen (Marlene Dietrich) as
in the truly freaky and berserk “Hot Voodoo” dance. It plays like a pagan, taboo and primitive beauty and the beast-style ritual, with Dietrich as an albino goddess or priestess shedding her gorilla fur disguise. All these decades later “Hot Voodoo” is still deliriously weird, and perhaps the first incidence of deliberate, knowing camp in popular culture. (It’s easy to imagine von Sternberg and Dietrich looking at each other across the camera and thinking, “Can you believe we’re getting away with this?”), 1932 / src: reflections-on-blonde-venus
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Bengt Köhler Sandberg :: Untitled, 2010′s (from Personal Favorites portfolio) / source: bkspicture.com
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Josef Ehm :: Summer, from ‘Friends in the Park’ series, 1935. Vintage gelatine silver print. / via zzzze
Tribunal des divorcées anonymes à Chicago / Court of Anonymous Divorced Women in Chicago, 1949 / src: Lumière des Roses
un regard oblique 