it's piano time

missing megaphone

Love Suffocato meets a Quasian

"the witch girl," 1915

alexander graham bell's ear phonautograph

Using a human ear and part of the skull, Bell invented a precursor to the phonograph. The machine etched sound waves onto a piece of blackened glass.

is this a candle?

dirty secrets

Ann MargRock

Tempest Storm

attempting to verify her bosomy claims

Summoning

Russ Meyer, "Directing."

Anita Berber's "Dance of Vice"

weiner sandwiches

yva (else neulander-simon)

Charleston, 1926

Yva was a successful fashion photographer in Berlin during the Weimar era. She and her husband, Alfred Simon, were killed in a concentration camp in 1942.

boy with life sized dolls

bat girl

the dolly sisters #2

cabaret de l'enfer, paris

Disneyland fashion shoot, 1961

http://miehana.blogspot.com/2011/03/storybook-fashions.html

yet another serious photographer

the affairs of anatol, 1921

serious photographer

"i love you jaynie"

Jayne Mansfield, Mickey Hargitay, and the Pink Palace






The floating dolls are hot water bottles formed in Jayne's likeness.

print advertisement for pears' soap

cages, clowns, booze, girls...

Style looks like it might be by Robt. Williams, but I'm not sure.

it takes two

in honor of the day he found the book...

jean harlow, by william mortensen

lady clown

it's true

Georgia O'Keeffe

Clara

The Ghoul

René and Georgette Magritte

René Magritte, pretending to choke his wife Georgette… (Botanical Garden in Paris, 1929)

Albin Brunovsky

Gloria Swanson

Cynthia Myers

In 1994, it became known that a nude photo of Cynthia (along with fellow playmates Angela Dorian, Reagan Wilson and Leslie Bianchini) was scanned and inserted into Apollo 12 Extra-vehicular activity astronaut cuff checklists by pranksters at NASA.

still from "La Madre E La Morte"

c. 1911

Raoul Ubac