Andrea Galvani, ‘Death of an image #9′, 2006. C-print on aluminum dibond, 108 x 146 cm. Collection AGI, MART Museum, Italy.
Andrea Galvani, ‘Death of an image #5′, 2005. C-print mounted on aluminum dibond, 108 x 146 cm. Collection AGI, MART Museum, Italy.
Andrea Galvani, ‘The Intelligence of Evil #5′, 2007.
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).
Daniel Tohill (incorrectly labelled as Daniel Lohill), born in 1881 in New Zealand. Charged with theft and sentenced to 4 months hard labor on 2 March 1908 in Napier. Photograph taken on 11 June 1908 by the New Zealand Police; image via the archives of the New Zealand Police Museum.
Read on for (many) more pictures of a shirtless Picasso. Warning: it is an image heavy post, because Picasso apparently really, really liked to whip his shirt off. Perhaps he felt that extra material encumbered his artistic genius. Or maybe the legendary playboy just liked to show off the goods. Continue reading
