Share your best theories about this strange 19th century photograph of a grown man feeding a doll
Categories: Curiosities, Strange Photographs, Unsettling Things • Tags: 19th century, bizarre, creepy, doll, photography
I love this 1962 photograph by Chinese photographer Wang Shuangquan 王双全 (1920-1978). It depicts the beautiful and bizarre eyeball signs that surround the entrance to an ophthalmology clinic in Tainan City, Taiwan. Isn’t there something weirdly flirty about those hand-painted eyes trying to lure in new customers? I think the jumble of eyes also makes the building look a bit monstrous, like a creature staring off in different directions. Can you imagine walking by this shop everyday and feeling all […]
Categories: Curiosities, Strange Photographs, Unsettling Things • Tags: advertisements, eye, photography
A series of creepy 1920s photographs of goblin creatures snatching a little girl out of her bed
Categories: Curiosities, Unsettling Things • Tags: children, creepy, goblin, monsters, photography, stereoscope, unsettling
Chelsea Nichols explores just what is creepy about Gillian Wearing’s photograph of Lily Cole wearing a damaged mask of her own face.
Categories: Contemporary Art, Unsettling Things • Tags: doll, gillian wearing, haunting, lily cole, masks, models, photography, psychology, unsettling, victorian era
