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Ainu, early 20th century, Hokkaido, Japan

'Tomten and Fox' by Lennart Helje (1940-2017)

1914-15

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Pier Paolo Pasolini by the Tiber (1950s)

Kitagawa Utamaro, Mirror, from the series “Eight Views of Tea-stalls in Celebrated Places" (“Meisho koshikake hakkei”), 1790

Theatre performance involving a courtesan in formal attire.  Early 1900’s, Japan, by unknown photographer 

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Lotte Pritzel with one of her many dolls in 1923. Rejecting Oskar Kokoschka’s commission for a replication of his lost lover in the form of an articulated doll, the dollmaker later became friends with Hans Bellmer, whose own fascination with dolls had roots in projected psychosexual obsessions, pedophilia, castration anxiety, and objectification of the female form as beckoning its own ruin.

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Man Ray, Seabrook, Justine in Mask, 1930, Gelatin silver print, 23.7 x 18.8 cm

Omphale by Byam Shaw (1914)

Red fox, Hokkaido, 1980s