Rare 19th century eight-legged walking doll
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Tag Archives: body
Bizarre beauty contests
Marianne Baba, Lois Conway and Ruth Swensen, winners of the Miss Perfect Posture contest at a national chiropractors convention in Chicago, May 1956. (Image via NPR; click on image for more great photographs of this contest).
Miss Lovely Eyes Contest, Florida, 1930s. (Image via Buzzfeed).
Lobster king Harry Hackney with his Lobster Waitresses, who won the prize in Atlantic City’s famous beauty pageant parade, date unknown. (Image via X-ray delta one on Flickr).
Burnt and melted wax figures after the 1925 fire at Madame Tussauds in London
Morbid kid’s wear: A contemporary spin on hidden mothers and post-mortem photography by Anuschka Blommers and Niels Schumm
WWII Parachute Crash Test Dummies?
James Lomax’s inflatable skins
Verity Whiter’s monstrous bodies
Verity Whiter, ‘Given Time…We’, 2012. Platsil Gel 10 Silicone, Smiths Prosthetic Deadner, Easyflo 120 Polyurethane System.
Verity Whiter, “Given Time…I”, 2012.
Verity Whiter, “Given Time”, 2012.
Irina Werning: Back to the Future
Irina Werning, Back to the Future series: Maartje in 1990 and 2011, Amsterdam
Irina Werning, Back to the Future series: Oscar in 1978 and 2010, Buenos Aires
Irina Werning, Back to the Future series: Lucia in 1956 and 2010, Buenos Aires
