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WWII Parachute Crash Test Dummies?
Cleaning the elephant skin
Museum staff cleaning an elephant skin at the American Museum of Natural History, June 1933. Image: Thane L. Bierwert, via the archives of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
Museum staff cleaning the skin of an elephant at the American Museum of Natural History, June 1933. Image: Thane L. Bierwert, via the archives of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
Three ridiculously interesting photographs from the history of art
Models for Grant Woods’ ‘American Gothic’ (1930) posed with painting. Via Twenty Two Words.
Daguerreotype of Robert Cornelius, likely the first photographic self-portrait ever taken, c 1839. Via American Library of Congress.
These three intriguing photographs have no real relationship with one another, except that each image reveals a little bit of the hidden history of art. Read on for more about these remarkable images. Continue reading
Hidden mothers in Victorian portraits
GUEST POST- Claire Atwater on The Bone Mother: Arresting images from Russian folklore
Baba Yaga by Ivan Bilibin, 1900.
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
