MAKINGS

Backstage. 1926

The fattest identical twins in the “Guinness World Records” known as the McGuire twins - were the fattest to ever walk the planet. The pair performed as tag-team wrestlers and weighed more than 100 stone combined. Photo from 1977.

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Sioux Indian Chief Joe Black Fox, 1898, by Gertrude Käsebier

1987: Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne

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Helen, a Native American telephone and switchboard operator, working at Many Glacier Hotel, Babb, Montana .

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and his father Rocky Johnson.

Man in fancy print outfit, Cimarron, New Mexico

A “colored” military policeman posing on his motorcycle in Columbus, Georgia .

Naledi loves her Helmut Lang coat

Alice Smeets: The Ghetto Tarot

Welcome to the Ghetto Tarot, a project from award-winning documentary photographer Alice Smeets and a group of Haitian artists known as Atis Rezistans. The idea was to take the classic Rider-Waite tarot deck of 78 cards and create a photographic version of each card using settings and objects in the vibrant ghetto of Haiti.

As Smeets says, “The spirit of the Ghetto Tarot project is the inspiration to turn negative into positive while playing. The group of artists ‘Atiz Rezistans’ use trash to create art with their own visions that are a reflection of the beauty they see hidden within the waste. They are claiming the word ‘Ghetto,’ thus freeing themselves of its depreciating undertone and turning it into something beautiful.”