CONSTANT SIEGE

Minayoshi Takada, ‘Double exposure- nude and leaves’, circa 1948

See also: Paolo Roversi, from ‘Nudi’ 1998

Also also: Man Ray, ‘Natasha’ 1929

And also: Dead Leaf Study, detail, 2008

Weegee, ‘Equestrian’, 1956

Also: ‘Booked on suspicion of killing a policeman’ c1939

And also: ‘Ballerina Marina Franca in her peacock costume, April 18, 1941’

Joel-Peter Witkin, ‘Elizabeth D, New York City’ 1973

See also: unknown title, one-armed naked face-painted grape-bunch-hair guy pointing penis at skull

Also also: A Day in the Country, Berlin (1998)

And sort of: Tefillin

Mitch Epstein, ‘West Side Highway, New York City’ [looking towards World Trade Center] 1977 (and view now)

Prisoner’s daily ration, Strangeways Prison, Manchester 1890

See also: Margaret Allen was a “butch” lesbian who dressed in men’s clothes and preferred to be called “Bill.”

Also also: Strangeways, Here We Come

Dolores the bald German bear (via Awl)

Drawing my bath, 3:16 am, Brooklyn

My little brother and me, circa 9 years old, near Lake Tahoe or Donner Lake, with the aforementioned Camaro.

A few years after this picture was taken, in a haze of hormones and clove smoke and schnapps, I got detained in it in Reno doing 95mph on a surface street at night with three goth girls, a judge showed me his scrapbook of car-accident dead teen bodies, and I had to wear an orange jumpsuit and pick up trash on the side of the road for six weeks.

Egon Schiele, ‘Mutter und Tochter’ 1913

Bob Basset, ‘New Leather Horse Mask’

See previously: Bob Basset, ‘New Doctor Plague Mask’

See also: Unknown, Pony Girl

Also also: ‘The Trojan Horse’, from ‘The Coming of Sin’ by Jose Raman Larraz

And also: Cellina von Mannstein, pony tail

And: Pony Head Bridle Set (J322)