Declassified picture of a young MK-ULTRA subject, 1961
(vía jardindeacero)
Statues ennemies by Sophie Calle, 2003
Iconic portraits mutilated during the civil war in Spain.
1. Vierge mutilée au marteau
2. Retable fusillé
3. Tranché à la hache
4. Christ décapité et aveuglé
5. Vierge aveuglée
6. Saint aveugle
Iconic portraits mutilated during the civil war in Spain.
1. Vierge mutilée au marteau
2. Retable fusillé
3. Tranché à la hache
4. Christ décapité et aveuglé
5. Vierge aveuglée
6. Saint aveugle
(Fuente: frenchtwist, vía ffactory)
Generalissimo Escorts Princess Grace Madrid, Spain… Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Spain’s chief of state, is seating Princess Grace (Nee Kelly) as she and her husband, Prince Rainier of Monaco (out of the picture) wee luncheon guests of the Generalissimo and Mme. Franco at the Pardo Palace in Madrid. The most publicized newlyweds of the decade are still honeymooning, May 1956.
(Fuente: graceandfamily, vía amaetqodvisfac)
15th century (ca.1410) France (Paris)
Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève
Ms. fr. 190/1: Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes by Giovanni Boccaccio
fol. 74v - wife of Candaules; being watched by her husband and Gyges
In the account of Herodotus, Gyges was a bodyguard of Candaules, who believed his wife to be the most beautiful woman on Earth. He insisted upon showing the reluctant Gyges his wife, disrobed, which so enraged her that she gave Gyges the choice of murdering her husband and making himself king, or of being put to death himself.
(Fuente: illumanu)
The Hands of Antonin Artaud
The Hands of Marcel Duchamp
Photos by Man Ray
(Fuente: anticipatedstranger, vía madonaperra)
50 years ago today, in the heat of the Space Race, Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space — two whole decades before the late Sally Ride made history as the first American woman in space and the youngest astronaut to ever launch into the cosmos.
(Fuente: , vía bestiario)
Pablo Escobar and his wife, Victoria Henao, in a police file photograph from the early eighties. They were married in 1976, when Henao was fifteen years old. “His visual record is composed only of fragments,” writes James Mollison in his essay “Bandit,” “and the collection of photographs and documents that remain have the quality of a forensic dossier.”
(Fuente: theparisreview)
Sideshow performer, The Serpent Lady, Serpentina
Born in 1908, with no bones in her body besides her skull and a few in her arms, she was hailed as the eighth wonder of the world and and exhibited at Coney Island.
(Fuente: just-collecting-dust, vía marlenamalheur)
