Posts tagged "bizzare"
  1. Notes: 186 / 9 months ago 
    Quite surreal illustration of “death and the maiden” theme [see also skull girls] from Uramado, Japan’s most remarkable SM magazine, 1958-1964 thanks to foxesinbreeches &  Les Rétro-Galeries de Mr Gutsy

    Quite surreal illustration of “death and the maiden” theme [see also skull girls]

    from Uramado, Japan’s most remarkable SM magazine, 1958-1964

    thanks to foxesinbreeches &  Les Rétro-Galeries de Mr Gutsy

     
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  2. Notes: 60 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
     Shōji Ueda *, Spring, 1948 [from the series ‘Seasons of the children’] courtesy of RMN

     Shōji Ueda *, Spring, 1948 [from the series ‘Seasons of the children’]

    courtesy of RMN

     
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  3. Notes: 92 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
     Vintage Halloween Portrait - A Very Scary Woman from AtypicalArt

     Vintage Halloween Portrait - A Very Scary Woman

    from AtypicalArt

     
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  4. Notes: 51 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    “Miss Devil, (Betty Taylor), smiles triumphantly as she overlooks the Hell scene presented by the Freshman stunt winners in their picturization of “Helle’s Bell.”The belles and gruesome skeltons in the pictures create the setting for the sad tale of Orpheus and won the cup for the class.” from 1944 Texas State College for Women Yearbook 

    “Miss Devil, (Betty Taylor), smiles triumphantly as she overlooks the Hell scene presented by the Freshman stunt winners in their picturization of “Helle’s Bell.”The belles and gruesome skeltons in the pictures create the setting for the sad tale of Orpheus and won the cup for the class.”

    from 1944 Texas State College for Women Yearbook 

     
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  5. Notes: 6631 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Costumed football match, 1920  from UniOfWestminsterArchives

    Costumed football match, 1920 

    from UniOfWestminsterArchives

     
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  6. Notes: 397 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Clarence John Laughlin , The House of the Past, 1947 [also]  from The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious (Aperture, 2011) by W.M. Hunt from La Lettre

    Clarence John Laughlin , The House of the Past, 1947 [also] 

    from The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious (Aperture, 2011) by W.M. Hunt

    from La Lettre

     
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  7. Notes: 908 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Untitled,1950s by Herbert List * from Lempertz

    Untitled,1950s by Herbert List *

    from Lempertz


     
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  8. Notes: 35 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    ComPoSition au PaPillon, 1955 by Jean Dieuzaide  from drouot

    ComPoSition au PaPillon, 1955 by Jean Dieuzaide

     from drouot

     
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  9. Notes: 153 / 1 year ago 
    The Drama of Display, Visual Merchandising and its Techniques by Jim Buckley,1953 [also] from weetstraw

    The Drama of Display, Visual Merchandising and its Techniques by Jim Buckley,1953

    [also] from weetstraw

     
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  10. Notes: 108 / 1 year ago 
    The Dew Machine, 1937 by Roland Penrose Hair had been an important theme for Roland Penrose before he met Lee Miller when he created a Surrealist object titled The Dew Machine (destroyed in the war) made from the head he sawed off a mannequin . He had a wig made of long blonde straight hair, added false eyelashes, and completed her transformation to life by painting the eyes, lips and flesh tones. The head, elegant but banal, hovers upside down above a baseboard and the kind of funnels used by chemists are inserted into the neck, filled with coloured beads. Thin strings connect the funnels to a stick that passes through the hair that caresses the baseboard. A further wine glass shaped apparatus completes the object, and strengthens the conjunction between the forces of arcane magic and the magic of science. It is easy to imagine the object scaled to a gigantic size, the funnels loaded with mysterious substances feeding the hair that softly trails across the countryside wherever dew is needed . from MONDOBLOGO [caption found accompanying this work]

    The Dew Machine, 1937 by Roland Penrose

    Hair had been an important theme for Roland Penrose before he met Lee Miller when he created a Surrealist object titled The Dew Machine (destroyed in the war) made from the head he sawed off a mannequin . He had a wig made of long blonde straight hair, added false eyelashes, and completed her transformation to life by painting the eyes, lips and flesh tones. The head, elegant but banal, hovers upside down above a baseboard and the kind of funnels used by chemists are inserted into the neck, filled with coloured beads. Thin strings connect the funnels to a stick that passes through the hair that caresses the baseboard. A further wine glass shaped apparatus completes the object, and strengthens the conjunction between the forces of arcane magic and the magic of science. It is easy to imagine the object scaled to a gigantic size, the funnels loaded with mysterious substances feeding the hair that softly trails across the countryside wherever dew is needed .

    from MONDOBLOGO [caption found accompanying this work]

     
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  11. Notes: 233 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
     La Luz by Laurie Lipton  Charcoal & pencil on paper, 2011

     La Luz by Laurie Lipton

     Charcoal & pencil on paper, 2011

     
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  12. Notes: 84 / 2 years ago  from foxesinbreeches
    Marina Edith Calvo - Italy Vanitã from foxesinbreeches

    Marina Edith Calvo - Italy Vanitã

    from foxesinbreeches

     
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  13. Notes: 204 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Campden-Hill—London, 1978 by  Bill Brandt

    Campden-Hill—London, 1978 by  Bill Brandt

     
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  14. Notes: 50 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    New York,1955 [printed c.1970s] by Harry Callahan * from exhibition: ‘Beyond COLOR: Color in American Photography, 1950-1970 at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York [15th September – 23rd October 2010] via Art Blart

    New York,1955 [printed c.1970s] by Harry Callahan *

    from exhibition: ‘Beyond COLOR: Color in American Photography, 1950-1970

    at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York [15th September – 23rd October 2010]

    via Art Blart

     
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  15. Notes: 40 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    I dreamed I was sawed in half…in my maidenform bra Maidenform Bra Display at Labiche`s, c.1950-55 by Charles L. Franck Photographers from Louisiana Digital Library

    I dreamed I was sawed in half…in my maidenform bra

    Maidenform Bra Display at Labiche`s, c.1950-55 by Charles L. Franck Photographers

    from Louisiana Digital Library

     
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