The Tell Tale Heart (1954)

Maureen Gubia

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Dance of her Hands, Tilly Losch (1930-1933)

the dancing pig

marital rating scale for wives

Madame Yevonde

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Mera Dil Ye Pukare Aaja - Vaijayanti Mala, Lata Mangeshkar, Nagin Song

Brett Walker’s Snakebite Survivors’ Club portraits

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Malick Sidibé

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dog milking a cow

Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test

Flannery O'Connor

 



“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological. This is a large statement, and it is dangerous to make it, for almost anything you say about Southern belief can be denied in the next breath with equal propriety.
“But approaching the subject from the standpoint of the writer, I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. The Southerner, who isn’t convinced of it, is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God.
“Ghosts can be very fierce and instructive. They cast strange shadows, particularly in our literature. In any case, it is when the freak can be sensed as a figure for our essential displacement that he attains some depth in literature.”



— Flannery O’Connor, “The Grotesque in Southern Fiction.”

Bert Amend & the One-Armed Musicians

 

 

 



The man on the right in all four images is Bert Amend, who, as a shake mill worker, lost an arm at the turn of the twentieth century. Determined not to give up music, he ultimately invented several attachments and devices to enable himself and similarly handicapped players to play many different instruments (he was granted a patent for a chord-fingering device for the piano). During the early ‘teens his trio was billed as “The Greatest Novelty Musical Act in Vaudeville.” Eventually adding more players — all one-armed individuals — the group played violins, cellos, guitars, piano and drums

Harold Edgerton - Hummingbirds in Action