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FIGHTING GAAAAAMES
photographed by Mark Seliger, 1997.
Enrique Metinides, Untitled (close-up of a blonde woman run over and crashed against a pole on Chapultepec Av., Mexico City), 1979
“It happened on a Sunday when my mother was escorting my twin brother and me down the steps of the tenement where we lived. We were going to church. While walking down the hallway to the entrance of the building, we heard an incredible crash mixed with screaming and cries for help. The accident involved three cars, all with families in them. Somehow, in the confusion, I was no longer holding my mother's hand. At the place where I stood at the curb, I could see something rolling from one of the overturned cars. It stopped at the curb where I stood. It was the head of a little girl. I bent down to touch the face, to speak to it – but before I could touch it someone carried me away.”
Joel Peter Witkin and the use of corpse in art
Glassman Joel-Peter Witkin (1994)
CRASH LANDING (1960)
ROSEDALE, QUEENS, N.Y.: Bruised and bleeding, 17-year-old Harold Muller lies alongside a wrecked auto after the vehicle skidded and slammed into a telephone pole here, Jan. 4th. Police said the auto in Which Muller and 18-year-old Ronald Wall were riding was stolen. According to police, the youths were being pursued by a Department of Corrections officer when their car crashed. Muller, who lives in Flushing was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Wall, also of Flushing, was unhurt. Both youths were booked in grand larceny charges.
Victoria Strehlau (Polish, 1994-2013, b. Moryń, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland, was based Windsor, ON, Canada) - Lyophilization from Preservation series, 2011 Photography
Medical students in the dissecting room, 20th century
'the dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by johann christian gustave lucae in order to determine the ideal female proportions' by johann heinrich hasselhorst, 1864 in the art of medicine: over 2000 years of images and imagination - julie anderson, emm barnes + emma shackleton (2011)